Boggsen

Boggsing
Terace

Switzerland, January 2011
FILM, Documentary, 38 min.

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directed by
Jürg Neuenschwander
Written by
Bruno Remund, Jürg Neuenschwander
Status
In distribution
Website
www.boggsen.ch

Approximately 800'000 Swiss cannot read or write well upon graduating from school. Their functional illiteracy makes them suffer. They conceal it in their everyday lives because thoughtless people have dismissed them as dumb and lazy since they were little. The film shows ten of these people as they go public with their predicament. We learn what strategies they have developed to avoid humiliation; we hear about taboo subjects and great suffering. And they tell us why it has been worth breaking out of their invisible prisons. The film gives words to people who only used to get red pencil marks.

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World Premiere
January 2011
Original Version
French, Swiss-German (german voice over subtitles),  colour, HD Cam, 38 min.
ISAN
0000-0002-A2C8-0000-2-0000-0000-V
Production
Container Film AG
Producer
Jürg Neuenschwander
directed by
Jürg Neuenschwander
Written by
Bruno Remund, Jürg Neuenschwander
Cinemato­graphy
Philippe Cordey
Editing
Katrin Suhren
Sound Editing
Peter von Siebenthal
Re-Recording Mix
Peter von Siebenthal
Music
Peter von Siebenthal
Location Sound Mix
Patrick Becker, Balthasar Jucker, Andreas Litmanowitsch

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