Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – Facing Death
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – Faire face à la mort

Switzerland, January 2003
FILM, Documentary, 98 min.

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directed by
Stefan Haupt
Written by
Stefan Haupt
Status
In distribution

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is arguably the world's most reknowned expert on the process of dying. With Kübler Ross' full collaboration, Haupt's film looks back on her life and career, from her earliest days as a triplet in 1920s Zurich, to her fame as an international lecturer and writer based in the US. Now in her twilight years, Kübler-Ross is bedbound in Arizona, and awaiting death herself. A truly fascinating film that enables us to re-evaluate our own emotions regarding life's greatest certainty, death. With the addition of archive film and interviews with Kübler-Ross' sisters and close colleagues, Haupt builds up a rich picture of a remarkable woman who has done so much to make death less of a taboo.

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World Premiere
January 2003
Original Version
English, Swiss-German, German (german subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 98 min.
Production
Fontana Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Stefan Haupt
directed by
Stefan Haupt
Written by
Stefan Haupt
Cinemato­graphy
Christian Davi, Patrick Lindenmaier
Editing
Stefan Kälin
Location Sound Mix
Thomas Thümena, Martin Witz

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
First Hand Films GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Austria
Polyfilm Verleih Distribution
Germany
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH Distribution
Switzerland
Frenetic Films Distribution

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