A plain and pugnacious choice for sentimentality, kitsch and melodrama (in which the hand of scenario writer Eric de Kuyper is recognisable), which destroys the illusion that the middle-class Swiss cannot surrender themselves to grand emotions.While the world prepared for war (the period covered is the thirties) in the films of Michel Simon and Jean Villard Gilles seems to go on as usual. Goebbels declares in newsreel footage that he only wants peace. But things are not what they seem.High points from Les émotions helvétiques are taken from Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1941) by Hans Tommer and Valérien Schmideley and Fuselier Wipf (1938) by Hermann Haller and Leopold Lindtberg.
Die verborgene Fiktion comprises a special selection from documentary films from the last three decades. In this film, Murer expounds on the hypothesis that documentaries…
Schmid’s contribution is made up of occasionally very old amateur films, often-touristy family films about winter-sport holidays (not called such at that time) for affluent…
A striking contribution because the historical period which Michel Soutter covers coincides with his own lifetime. Soutter was, alongside Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta, one…
