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Tag Archives: Switzerland
My Sister Maria (2002) Meine Schwester Maria

A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. Read More »
Black for Remembrance (1995) Noir comme le souvenir

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Read More »
The Bus (1975) Otobüs

A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away. Read More »
Green Mountain (1990) Fredi M. Murer, Fredy Breitschmidt, Marcos Buser, Peter Hug

A few months after Tchernobyl’s disaster, some inhabitants of a small village in Switzerland are told by the radio Read More »
A Flame in My Heart (1987) Alain Tanner, Myriam Mézières, Benoît Régent, Azize Kabouche

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African Read More »
The Damned / La caduta degli dei (1969) Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich. Read More »
Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Alain Tanner

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva Read More »
Thelma (2001) Pierre-Alain Meier, Laurent Schilling, Pascale Ourbih, Natalia Kapodistria

Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desperately in need of cash for child support is intrigued Read More »
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) Jan Svankmajer, Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová

Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes. Read More »