Daniel Andreas Sager
Daniel Andreas Sager was born in Berlin in 1985 and grew up in Moscow. After high school he studied social anthropology and philosophy in Leipzig. In the cinema “Prager Frühling” he headed the Short Film Festival "Young Cinema" for young filmmakers, until he began studying directing at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. With the grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg, he studied one year at film school UCINE in Buenos Aires. He will graduate in March 2015.
Films
- Finistére26'
The Romans called the département in the far northwest of Brittany that today bears the number 29 “End of the Earth”. Finis Terrae. Its Breton name Penn ar Bed means “Beginning of the World”. Between these two points of view an unnamed suicidal man survives in a boat on the beach, and attributes his favourite quote to the anarchistic chansonnier Léo Ferré: Better lonely than in bad company. In death the man hopes to finally find his daughter Sophie, who died before him but still has no gravestone.
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