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Die Liebe zum Tod

Thomas Koerfer | Switzerland | 1991 | 26' | IFFR 1992

With his selection of film fragments Thomas Koerfer evokes the morbid and moralistic atmosphere of the Slump. As an innocent and comic proof of this, he presents a document in which a simple kiss leads to an attack of measles. The suicidal tendency he detects in films made after the economic crisis in 1929 is more sombre. A time of dismal stories about unemployment and the build up to World War Two. Poverty and urbanisation are accompanied by loneliness and fear. Fear of disease through bad living conditions, bad food and the flight into drink and prostitution.îAlongside films by Swiss film-makers, this section also includes fragments from international avant-gardists such as Walter Ruttmann, Feind im Blut (1931), and the duo Eduard Tissé and Sergei Eisenstein, Frauennot — Frauenglück (1929).

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    Alain Klarer’s contribution is about the difficult relationship which Swiss film-makers had and still have with Swiss reality. Klarer uses as

  • Les débordants

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  • Les petites illusions

    In Les petites illusions Markus Imhoof is mainly interested in what Swiss cinema has not shown; the gaps in its memory. His contribution to Le film

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Film details

Country of production
Switzerland
Year
1991
Festival edition
IFFR 1992
Length
26"
Medium/Format
35mm

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