Love Story

Love Story sees director Florian Habicht finding a movie, a plot, and a beautiful Ukranian on the streets of New York. The offbeat romance is part love letter to New York City, part the story of Florian and Mash... and possibly part true. The script to this genre-bending tryst is written before our eyes, via story ideas from real life New Yorkers. Love Story won Aotearoa awards for Best Film and Director, and raves from Variety and the NZ Herald’s Peter Calder — who described Auckland Film Festival audiences gasping at the "strange, surprising and wildly romantic ideas sprinkled through it".

This deserves to become a Kiwi classic — and a New York one too.

– Peter Calder in The NZ Herald, 11 August 2011

Key Cast & Crew

Maria Ines Manchego

Cinematographer, Creative Consultant

Florian Habicht

Director, Subject, Writer

Masha Yakovenko

Subject

Bob van der Wal

Additional Camera

Isobel Dryburgh

Additional Camera

Frank Habicht

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