Roman Hüben on his documentary film <i>Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair</i> : An interview

This contribution is an interview with Roman Hüben, a director and screenwriter wholives in Lausanne, Switzerland. After making several short films, such as Io ho unpotere (2013) and Villa Ventura (2017), in 2022 he made the documentary Douglas Sirk– Hope as in Despair. His latest film Autostop (2025) is in distribution right now. Hisdocumentary film on Douglas Sirk, based on previously unpublished archivaldocuments, sheds new light on a filmmaker who played a key role in the artisticdialogue between Europe and the United States before and after the Second World War.

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Atlantic Studies
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2026-01-26
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2026.2617886
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Cinema and Media Studies
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Roman Hüben on his documentary film Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair : An interview

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This contribution is an interview with Roman Hüben, a director and screenwriter wholives in Lausanne, Switzerland. After making several short films, such as Io ho unpotere (2013) and Villa Ventura (2017), in 2022 he made the documentary Douglas Sirk– Hope as in Despair. His latest film Autostop (2025) is in distribution right now. Hisdocumentary film on Douglas Sirk, based on previously unpublished archivaldocuments, sheds new light on a filmmaker who played a key role in the artisticdialogue between Europe and the United States before and after the Second World War.

Atlantic Studies
University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT), Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
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