Important Retrospective of Clemens Klopfenstein in Munich

11.09.2009

The Munich Film Museum is rewarding Clemens Klopfenstein with an extensive retrospective. It will be opened on 17 September 2009 in the presence of the artist. 18 films by Klopfenstein will be shown in Munich by 9 December.
Klopfenstein covers a wide spectrum in the opening programme by presenting his film “Die Vogelpredigt oder Das Schreien der Mönche” (2005) with Polo Hofer and Max Rüdlinger, as well as a short silent film by his father Albert Klopfenstein entitled “Augenschein des Amtsgerichts” (1939) and “The It.Aliens”, the latest co-production with his son Lukas Klopfenstein, which was shown on 10 September at the Venice Film Festival. Also on the programme for the first weekend of the presentation are “Die Gemmi – ein Übergang” (1994) and the film “Das Schweigen der Männer” (1996), winner of the Swiss Film Prize 1998, together with the crime film “Die Fabrikanten” (1974), which Klopfenstein will be presenting to the Munich public jointly with the co-director Urs Aebersold.



The basic motives of the “independent film maker par excellence”, who brings actors and actresses such as Ursula Andress, Sabine Timoteo, Tina Engel or Bruno Ganz in front of his camera, are shown by the German film historian Ulrich Gregor in the “desire for adventure and exploration of the unknown/exotic, but also in the ironic, self-critical observation of the near, the trusted and the known”.



The retrospective on the icon of Swiss film and video making closes with “WerAngstWolf” (2000), a bus journey through Umbria during which a group of actors is accompanied by the unreal scenery, the premonition of a wolf and a – constantly threatening – camera. SWISS FILMS is supporting the retrospective with copies of films.



Zurich, 11 September 2009



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