Fremds Land

Switzerland, March 2003
FILM, Fiction, 108 min.

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directed by: Luke Gasser
Written by: Luke Gasser
Status: In distribution
Website: www.fremdsland.ch

When young Sara stumbles upon a bundle of old letters and drawings, she finds herself transported back to the 19th Century world of her ancestor David. 1810. David is a young conscript returning home from Napoleon's brutal Russian campaign. Forced to recognise that he has no future at home in the Swiss countryside, he sets off for North America in the hope of a better life, but he never forgets the homeland. Set between the dramatic context of the Napoleonic wars and the mass exodus that followed in the years after to America, “Fremds Land” is a film about emigration and homesickness, about the universal need to create a better life, wherever that may be.

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World Premiere: March 2003
Original Version: English, Swiss-German, German (german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 108 min.
Production: Filmwerk.ch GmbH, Sascha Klement, Bruno Gasser
Producer: Reinhard J. Steiner, Luke Gasser
directed by: Luke Gasser
Written by: Luke Gasser
Editing: Reinhard J. Steiner
Music: Luke Gasser
Animation: Peter Hossfeld