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Tag Archives: Switzerland
Teheran 43: Spy Ring (1981) Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Curd Jürgens, Igor Kostolevskiy
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent Read More »
Mein Kampf (2009) Urs Odermatt, Götz George, Tom Schilling, Anna Unterberger
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. Read More »
Step Across the Border (1990) Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Jonas Mekas, Julia Judge, John Spacely
This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. Read More »
We’re All Still Here (1997) Anne-Marie Miéville, Aurore Clément, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Godard
Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work Read More »
Venus Boyz (2002) Gabrielle Baur, Diane Torr, Dréd Gerestant, Del La Grace Volcano
A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. Read More »
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974) Barbet Schroeder, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Uganda’s dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew’s request to interview and film him. Read More »
Bread and Roses (2000) Ken Loach, Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Read More »
The Deserter (1943) Franz Schnyder, Robert Trösch, Adolf Manz, Sylva Denzler
A young soldier in an army camp near a small Swiss village gets into an argument with his sergeant, which winds up in a fight. Read More »
Journey of Hope (1990) Xavier Koller, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Nur Sürer, Emin Sivas
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. Read More »
The Turin Horse (2011) Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. Read More »
Drift (2015) Karim Patwa, Scherwin Amini, Miro Caltagirone, Vanessa Comte
Robert (22), a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown after a long period of absence. Read More »
After Darkness (1985) Sergio Guerraz, Dominique Othenin-Girard, John Hurt, Julian Sands, Victoria Abril
To salve his guilty conscience, an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt Read More »
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) Martina Kudlácek, Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Documentary, Biography
Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »
Not on the lips (2003) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. Read More »