Gespräch im Gebirg
Conversation in the Mountains – A Reader's Report
Dialogue dans la montagne – Compte rendu d'un lecteur
Switzerland, February 2000
FILM,
Documentary,
59 min.
- directed by
- Mattias Caduff Probst
- Written by
- Mattias Caduff Probst
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.dschointventschr.ch
In July 1959 the Jewish poet Paul Celan travels from Paris to Sils-Maria for a holiday, in the company of his wife and child. During his stay in the Engadine he hopes to meet the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, whose aphorism “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric” launched a controversy on the justifiability of art in a world that has experienced the holocaust. However since Adorno did not appear, the meeting was unable to take place. Celan cut short his holiday, and on his return to Paris penned the painfully beautiful story “Gespräch im Gebirg” (Conversation in the Mountains), in which two Jews meet in the mountains in the middle of the night for a conversation. In this film, Mattias Caduff attempts a very personal approach to this difficult text, an approach which includes considering his own point of view as a reader.
credits
- World Premiere
- February 2000
- Original Version
- German (english subtitles), colour, 16mm, 59 min.
- Production
- Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Mattias Caduff Filmproduktion
- Producer
- directed by
- Mattias Caduff Probst
- Written by
- Mattias Caduff Probst
- Cinematography
- Mattias Caduff Probst
- Editing
- Mattias Caduff Probst
- Re-Recording Mix
- Florian Eidenbenz
- Location Sound Mix
- Jürgen Jansen, Florian Eidenbenz
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Dschoint Ventschr Distribution Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Zürich, Filmpreis Stadt Zürich, Zürcher Filmpreis 2000 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Solothurn, 51. Solothurner Filmtage
21.01.2016 - 28.01.2016 -
Munich, 16. Int. Dokumentarfilm Festival
27.04.2001 - 06.05.2001 -
Graz, Festival des österreichischen Films
19.03.2001 - 25.03.2001 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
23.01.2001 - 28.01.2001 -
Locarno, 53. Festival internazionale del film di Locarno
02.08.2000 - 12.08.2000 -
Nyon, 31e Festival int. du cinéma Documentaire
01.05.2000 - 07.05.2000 -
German Cinema
09.02.2000 - 20.02.2000