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A world premiere: If not for the fateful encounter with the tailor Jacob Davis, the success story of Levi’s would never have been written.
In 1850s San Francisco, in the wake of the Gold Rush, Levi Strauss, the son of a Jewish peddler from Upper Franconia, embodied the spirit of the American pioneers. Defying adversity, unscrupulous competitors, and numerous personal setbacks, he paved the way for blue jeans to become a global phenomenon.
The screening will include the episodes 3 & 4 of the series, introduced by a short summary of episodes 1 and 2.
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After the film: Q&A with Neele Leana Vollmar and team
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After the film: Q&A with Neele Leana Vollmar, Robert Marciniak, Susanne Hildebrand and Lukas Rüppel
HFF Audimax
Meet the director
Neele Leana Vollmar
Neele Leana Vollmar was born in Bremen in 1978. In 2003, she took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and The Hollywood Perspective master class at UCLA. She completed her study of film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2005 with her first motion picture, URLAUB VOM LEBEN. Her films MARIA, IHM SCHMECKT’S NICHT! (2009) and RICO, OSKAR UND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN (2014) were a tremendous success at the box office.