1. Year of Production
  2. Concept, Camera
  3. Editing
  4. Acting
  1. 2001
  2. Sonja Wyss
  3. Sonja Wyss
  4. Janneke Albers
    Andreas Scharfenberg
    Lona Tulinski
    Dieke de Vries

The dreamlike setting of "Hoch-Zyte" (2001) shows three women and their multilayered fantasies and dreams about marriage and their wedding day. An 11-year old girl is knitting a “wedding stocking” (Hochzeitssparstrumpf) used to collect money for her dowry. The knitted stocking is getting longer and longer, since a wedding seems not in sight. She is dreaming and waiting for her “prince on the white horse” who does not appear – not yet. A second woman, she could be the girl's mother, is reminiscing about her own wedding long ago. A third woman, a young maid, is the imaginary bride. In a wedding dress she dances through several scenes in the arms of the groom. A he-goat, dead crows, eggs, a dancing bridal couple and a girl, who is lying on the ground like Sleeping Beauty, are symbols which allude to fairy tales, myths or ghostly dreams. "Hoch-Zyte" can also be interpreted as the life-story of a single person viewed from changing points of view and different phases of her life.