Roman Hüben on his documentary film Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair : An interview

This contribution is an interview with Roman Hüben, a director and screenwriter who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. After making several short films, such as Io ho un potere (2013) and Villa Ventura (2017), in 2022 he made the documentary Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair. His latest film Autostop (2025) is in distribution right now. His documentary film on Douglas Sirk, based on previously unpublished archival documents, sheds new light on a filmmaker who played a key role in the artistic dialogue between Europe and the United States before and after the Second World War.