“We are the Trojan horse in the milieu of the super-rich”

With their cinema satire “Veni Vidi Vici”, directors Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann take the super-rich to task. In it, they tell the story of industrialist Amon Maynard (Laurence Rupp), who takes over a competitor’s company against his will without batting an eyelid, gets on with ministers and the police, and has a very special hobby: he loves to go on the prowl and randomly shoot strangers – knowing that nothing can happen to him thanks to his excellent connections. Only at home, with his family, does the always polite factory owner appear soft-spoken…

At the premiere of the film on Monday evening in the Moviemento cinema in Linz, director Daniel Hoesl and OÖN culture director Peter Grubmüller discussed the unscrupulous abuse of power in high society and politics with moderator Michael Eibl from the Freistadt local stage. “We are the Trojan horse in the milieu of the super-rich,” said Hoesl, who, like his directing colleague Julia Niemann, comes from a humble background and researched high society for the film thanks to an invitation from a billionaire. With the film, Hoesl wanted to use satirical means to show how billionaires can always get away with it. “We all have to change that,” he appealed to the audience. “Who can stop the super-rich? Only us!”

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