Veni Vidi Vici
Feature Film, AT 2024, Farbe, 86 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2024
Director: Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
Script: Daniel Hoesl
Cast: Laurence Rupp, Ursina Lardi, Olivia Goschler, Kyra Kraus, Tamaki Uchida, Dominik Warta, Markus Schleinzer
Camera: Gerald Kerkletz
Editor: Gerhard Daurer
Location Sound: Claus Benischke-Lang
Music: Manuel Riegler, Gerhard Daurer
Sounddesign: Andreas Pils, Gerhard Daurer
Production Design: Johannes Salat
Costumes: Anaïs Horn, Marcus Karkhof
Producers: Ulrich Seidl
Production: Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
They know what they’re doing. Amoral, super-rich people chase poor Sans Papiers in a game of life and death. In their satire, Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann show that cruelty is gaining pleasure from the suffering of others. Veni Vidi Vici is a sarcastic indictment of decadence and whitewashing through mindfulness and the rhetoric of diversity, but also a play on the desire for the forbidden—and the audience’s desire. In this respect, it’s a film that holds us all accountable.