Erste Hilfe für die Seele
Switzerland, February 1999
FILM,
Documentary,
53 min.
- directed by
- Simone Bucher
- Written by
- Simone Bucher
- Status
- In distribution
Is it possible to want to go on living after experiencing the horrors of war? As well as doing physical harm, wars eat into the souls of the survivors. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 killed nearly a million people. For years to come those who escaped death will carry mental scars as well as physical ones. The only psychiatric clinic in Rwanda was destroyed, its staff and patients murdered. Switzerland has tried to offer first aid for the soul, training a new generation of healers. In the rebuilt clinic the contradictory nature of the human condition, the dark and the light, come face to face in the persons of those who have lived through the horrors of genocide, and the young staff of the clinic who treat their charges with infinite patience and understanding. The result is a rare insight into violence and what comes after, how people come to terms with tragedy, wherever it may occur.
credits
- World Premiere
- February 1999
- Original Version
- German, colour, Beta SP, 53 min.
- Production
- SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF/3sat, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
- Producer
- Simone Bucher, Luis Bolliger
- directed by
- Simone Bucher
- Written by
- Simone Bucher
- Cinematography
- Pio Corradi
- Location Sound Mix
- Pio Corradi
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- SRF/3sat
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- SRF/3sat Distribution