Oliver Hermanus

Oliver Hermanus

출생 : 1983-01-01, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa

약력

South African director and writer, born in Cape Town in 1983. After graduating in film, media and visual studies, he worked as a photographer for a news agency. He then completed his studies at the London Film School, making his first film, Shirley Adams (2009). He later directed Beauty (winner of the Queer Palm Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival), The Endless River (first South African film in competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival), Moffie (2019) and Living (2022) with Bill Nighy.

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Oliver Hermanus
Oliver Hermanus

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리빙
Director
In 1950s London, a humorless civil servant decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
모피
Screenplay
남아프리카공화국의 아파르트헤이트(인종 차별 정책)에 반대하는 무장 투쟁이 정점에 달했던 1980년대. 오랫동안 자신이 어딘가 다르다고 느껴왔던 니콜라스는 징용이 되어 앙골라의 국경으로 떠난다. 성소수자의 존재를 비하하는 잔인하고 비인간적인 훈련과 정신교육을 겪으면서도 니콜라스는 자신의 정체성을 확실히 깨닫게 된다.
모피
Director
남아프리카공화국의 아파르트헤이트(인종 차별 정책)에 반대하는 무장 투쟁이 정점에 달했던 1980년대. 오랫동안 자신이 어딘가 다르다고 느껴왔던 니콜라스는 징용이 되어 앙골라의 국경으로 떠난다. 성소수자의 존재를 비하하는 잔인하고 비인간적인 훈련과 정신교육을 겪으면서도 니콜라스는 자신의 정체성을 확실히 깨닫게 된다.
The Endless River
Writer
A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend (Endless River) after his four-year jail sentence. At first it appears their plans for a new life together are finally being realized. But when the family of a foreigner living on a nearby farm is brutally murdered, the young woman and the grieving widower begin gravitating towards each other. Trapped in a cycle of violence and bloodshed, the two form an unlikely bond seeking to transcend their mutual anger, pain and loneliness.
The Endless River
Director
A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend (Endless River) after his four-year jail sentence. At first it appears their plans for a new life together are finally being realized. But when the family of a foreigner living on a nearby farm is brutally murdered, the young woman and the grieving widower begin gravitating towards each other. Trapped in a cycle of violence and bloodshed, the two form an unlikely bond seeking to transcend their mutual anger, pain and loneliness.
Beauty
Writer
François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
Beauty
Director
François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
Shirley Adams
Director
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. Shirley has no money, no job and no husband - he left. The shooter is one of Donovan's childhood friends. Her reaction to the betrayal is so overwhelming that she chooses not to tell Donovan in fear of further damaging his already unstable emotional state. Determined to make a change in their lives, Shirley actively decides to embrace their new circumstances, hoping that Donovan will follow her example.
The History of Sound
Director
Follows two young men, Lionel and David, who, during the WWI period, set out to record the lives, voices and music of their countrymen. In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the USA, both men are deeply changed.