Zeit der Titanen
The Time of the Titans
Les années des titans
Switzerland, October 2001
FILM,
Documentary,
79 min.
- directed by
- Edgar Hagen
- Written by
- Edgar Hagen
- Status
- In distribution
Between 1950 and 1966 thousands of men moved up to the Alps in the Valais, a natural landscape of rocks and ice. They built a civilisation limited in time: villages made out of barracks on the cliffs of the mountains similar to Tibetan cloisters. They blew up a 160 km long tunnel labyrinth into the rocks, beneath the Matterhorn and several other gigantic mountains, through which the water from 35 glaciers runs to the highest dam of the world, the Grande Dixence. Miners and intellectuals like the writer Maurice Chappaz travelled again through this immense dark abyss in search for the places, where overcrowded barack villages stood and where we can only find leftover ruins today. It was here, where they grew beyond themselves. The confrontation with their own psychological and physical boundaries towers above the life of these men. They mastered lifecrisis and escaped the poverty of their families. Here they found a future and lifelong friendships developed, but they also met with loneliness, sickness and death.
credits
- World Premiere
- October 2001
- Original Version
- Italian, French, German (french/german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 79 min.
- Production
- maximage, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Teleclub AG
- Producer
- Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler
- directed by
- Edgar Hagen
- Written by
- Edgar Hagen
- Cinematography
- Séverine Barde
- Editing
- Loredana Cristelli
- Location Sound Mix
- Christophe Giovannoni
- Lighting Design
- André Pinkus
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Accent Films International Ltd.
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Look Now! Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Festival du Film des Diablerets, Audience Award 2002 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Docs for Sale
22.11.2002 - 29.11.2002 -
Festival du Film des Diablerets
23.09.2002 - 29.09.2002 -
Munich, DOK.fest München
27.04.2002 - 04.05.2002 -
Ghent, Documentary Filmfestival Gent
27.02.2002 - 06.03.2002 -
Gothenburg, 25th Göteborg Film Festival
25.01.2002 - 04.02.2002 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
15.01.2002 - 20.01.2002