Grossvater hat das Meer nie gesehen
Grandfather Never Saw The Sea
Grand-père n'a jamais vu la mer
Switzerland, April 2011
FILM,
Documentary,
27 min.
- directed by
- Christine Hürzeler
- Written by
- Christine Hürzeler
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.chfilm.ch
With her film essay the director explores her own family history. She interlaces family recordings, found footage and recent images into a visual and acoustic examination of her origins. It reveals the frictions, cracks and never confessed longings, which ultimately betray domestic happiness as merely staged. Beyond the persona, the film documents the atmosphere of an entire era. The unease of the individual is also the unease of a generation which grew up in a supposedly free society, yet lived under the constantly looming shadow of the Cold War.
credits
- World Premiere
- April 2011
- Original Version
- Swiss-German, German (french/english subtitles), colour und s/w, Digi Beta, 27 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-AAAF-0000-2-0000-0000-V
- Production
- chfilm, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
- Producer
- Christine Hürzeler
- directed by
- Christine Hürzeler
- Written by
- Christine Hürzeler
- Cinematography
- Christine Munz, Christine Hürzeler
- Editing
- Christine Hürzeler
- Sound Editing
- Guido Keller
- Re-Recording Mix
- Guido Keller
- Music
- Tomas Korber, Mersault
- Location Sound Mix
- Ruedi Guyer
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- chfilm
Awards
(a selection)
- dokumentART, Lobende Erwähnung der internationalen Jury 2012 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Belgrade, 60th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival
02.04.2013 - 06.04.2013 -
21. dokumentART - Europäisches Filmfestival Neubrandenburg
16.11.2012 - 20.11.2012 -
Kiev, 42nd Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist
20.10.2012 - 28.10.2012 -
Milano, 11th Festival internazionale del Cinema d'Arte Bergamo
14.07.2012 - 21.07.2012 -
Huesca, 40. Festival de Cine de Huesca
08.06.2012 - 16.06.2012 -
Madrid, Documenta Madrid 12 IX Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid
04.05.2012 - 13.05.2012 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
19.01.2012 - 26.01.2012 -
6. Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo
09.11.2011 - 14.11.2011 -
Nyon, 17e Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon
07.04.2011 - 13.04.2011