LYDIA - Aufzeichnungen aus dem Irrenhaus

Switzerland, Planned for 1st quarter 2025
FILM, Documentary, 70 min.

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directed by
Stefan Jung
Status
In production

She was a prisoner in the corset of social constraints and conventions - and at the same time she fought for a self-determined life as a woman - Lydia Welti-Escher, the daughter of politician and business leader Alfred Escher.
Due to an extramarital liaison, the Swiss authorities had her committed to a psychiatric ward. The film is based on the transcript of the conversations that two doctors had with Lydia Welti-Escher in the psychiatric clinic in Rome in January 1890.

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World Premiere
Planned for 1st quarter 2025
Original Version
German,  colour, DCP, 70 min.
ISAN
0000-0006-3835-0000-U-0000-0000-L
Production
real Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Stefan Jung
directed by
Stefan Jung
Cinemato­graphy
Andreas Kohler
Editing
Tania Stöcklin
Re-Recording Mix
Christian Schäppi
Music
Claudio Landolt
Compositing
Patrischa Freuler
Costumes
Rudolf Jost
Make up
Basil Prinz

Cast

Anja Andersen Rüegg as Lydia

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