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Pédra. Un reporter sans frontières – L'aventure de Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, photo-reporter à Paris Match

Pédra. Un reporter sans frontières

Documentary, 61 min.

Title E:Pédra. Reporter Without Borders
Title I:Pédra. Un reporter senza frontiere
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by Villi Hermann

Switzerland, October 2006

The photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini was born in Paris in 1927, to parents from Locarno. Emigrating with his parents to Switzerland in 1943-44, he starts taking photographs in Davos. By the end of the war, he is taking up a job offer with Paris Match, and beginning his short career as a photojournalist. Little more than a decade later, while capturing enduring images of the Budapest uprising of 1956, he is fatally injured. I meet people who shared his reportage, trips and adventures: photographers Russ Melcher, Willy Rizzo, Benno Graziani, Erich Lessing, Mario De Biasi. I visit Dominique Lapierre, too, with whom Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini published a book about the trip that they did through the USSR in 1956. In Tbilisi I meet the surgeon Georgi Mosseshvili who hosted the French during their trip.

 

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Directed by: Villi Hermann
Written by: Villi Hermann

World Premiere: October 2006
Original Version: Italian, colour and b/w, Digi Beta, 61 min.
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ISAN: 0000-0001-9322-0000-L Pédra

Production: Imago Film SA, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse

Cinematography: Alberto Meroni, Felix von Muralt, Pietro Zuercher, Micha Hädemer, Nugzar Nozadze
Editing: Villi Hermann, Alberto Meroni
Sound: Villi Hermann
Rerecording Sound Mix: Riccardo Studer
Music: Christian Gilardi, Zeno Gabaglio, Khaled Arman

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World Rights: Imago Film SA

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Distribution Switzerland: Imago Film SA

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  • Freistadt, Der Neue Heimatfilm, Würdigungspreis der Stadt Freistadt 2008

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