Das Album meiner Mutter

An Album For My Mother

Switzerland, January 2011
FILM, Documentary, 75 min.

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directed by
Christian Iseli
Written by
Christian Iseli
Status
In distribution
Website
www.ifilm.ch

Over a period of several years, the filmmaker takes his camera along on visits to his mother, who is in her 90s. She looks back with humour on her life – and reveals a carefully-kept family secret. Marie Iseli-Stettler lives in an old age home and needs increasing care as time goes on. Iseli does not shy away from documenting the loneliness and pain that overshadow the end of her life: as unavoidable as the helplessness and guilt felt by her four children. Iseli examines old photos, questions his own memories, and reflects on the societal changes his parents experienced as members of the wartime generation. Through one family's story, Swiss history comes alive.

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World Premiere
January 2011
Original Version
Swiss-German, German,  colour and b/w, DCP, 75 min.
ISAN
0000-0002-B2FA-0000-I-0000-0000-K
Production
Christian Iseli Film & Video
Producer
Christian Iseli
directed by
Christian Iseli
Written by
Christian Iseli
Cinemato­graphy
Christian Iseli
Editing
Christian Iseli
Sound Design
Peter von Siebenthal
Re-Recording Mix
Peter von Siebenthal
Music
Peter von Siebenthal
Location Sound Mix
Christian Iseli

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