Der 10. Mai
When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
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When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux nations, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? The answer is devastating.
Franz Schnyder was one of the most enigmatic masters of Swiss film. On the one hand, he became an epitome of conventional quality cinema due to his successful adaptations of local literary classics – on the other hand, certain higher-ups viewed him as something akin to an enemy of the state, partly due to this film that dared to show the nation as well-willing yet morally weak and not able to withstand a totalitarian threat.
And while Der 10. Mai might look at the past, there were also current affairs. The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 got Schnyder thinking about his fatherland: a country whose official anti-Communism had made it too authoritarian for liberal bourgeois comfort. A masterpiece of political cinema long available only in a revised edit, finally restored to its original glory.
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Programme IFFR 2021
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeWhen Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
As Japanese monsters like Godzilla have so often saved the world, could they now help us fight Covid-19? Find out here!
88'
Japan
IFFR 2021
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20'
Russia
IFFR 2021