Das verlorene Gesicht
Switzerland, March 1998
FILM,
Documentary,
52 min.
- directed by
- Elsbeth Leisinger
- Written by
- Elsbeth Leisinger
- Status
- In distribution
In a near fatal fight with a bear, Russian forester Yevgeny Severin lost his face. Totally unrecognisable but nonetheless alive, he stayed in hiding in the wilderness of the Taiga for four years. A combination of circumstances eventually brought him to the university clinics of Berne and Zurich in Switzerland where he spent a year in the hands of plastic surgeons, whose powers today verge on the miraculous. Little by little, the Russian forester acquired a whole new face. The film looks at the physical and spiritual healing process necessary for Yevgeny’s recovery, and his return home.
credits
- World Premiere
- March 1998
- Original Version
- German (english subtitles), colour, Beta SP, 52 min.
- Production
- SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
- Producer
- Elsbeth Leisinger
- directed by
- Elsbeth Leisinger
- Written by
- Elsbeth Leisinger
- Cinematography
- Peter Ramseier
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Telepool GmbH