A few years before The Wall, Marlen Haushofer wrote the novella Wir töten Stella (literally We Kill Stella), where a narrator reviews the circumstances surrounding the death of a young girl who has been run over by a truck. The edifice of the solid, middle-class family where 19-year-old Stella comes to stay for a year as a student is soon revealed as a merciless trap; each member of the family betrays the young woman in a different way. A conversation with Julian Pölsler about the second part of his Haushofer Trilogy.

Julian Pölsler’s new Marlen Haushofer adaptation KILLING STELLA (after The Wall in 2012, Flavio Marchetti’s documentary ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE and GATEKEEPER by Lawrence Tooley and Loretta Pflaum are the three new films made in Austria celebrating their international premiere at the 51^st HOFER Filmtage (October 24 to 29)