Opération Libertad

Switzerland, May 2012
FILM, Fiction, 90 min.

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directed by: Nicolas Wadimoff
Written by: Nicolas Wadimoff, Jacob Berger
Status: In distribution
Website: www.operation-libertad.com

In April 1978, members of “Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire” (GAR) rob a major bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin American. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation. Although the bank director confesses to GAR, the Paraguayan mediator refuses to cooperate, confronting the members of GAR with difficult issues: Should they liquidate this lieutenant-colonel of the dictatorial regime’s secret service? Or take him as a hostage? What should they do with the millions they have stolen from the bank? And the agonizing, recurring question: Does the end really justify the means? Thirty years later, the videotapes of this operation resurface, thus raising a new question: How did the affair actually end at that time?

credits

World Premiere: May 2012
Original Version: French (german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 90 min.
Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Akka Films, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer: Joëlle Bertossa, Tunje Berns, Samir, Nicolas Wadimoff, Michel Merkt
directed by: Nicolas Wadimoff
Written by: Nicolas Wadimoff, Jacob Berger
Cinematography: Franck Rabel
Editing: Pauline Dairou, Karine Sudan
Sound Editing: Florian Eidenbenz
Re-Recording Mix: Florian Eidenbenz
Location Sound Mix: Christophe Giovannoni
Production Design: Georg Bringolf
Lighting Design: Ernst Brunner
Costumes: Cidalia Da Costa, Sylvie Barras

Cast

Karine Guignard as Charlie
Natacha Koutchoumov as Virginie
Laurent Capelluto as Guy
Nuno Lopes as Baltos
Jonathan Genet as Hugues
Antonio Buíl as Vilas
Michael Neuenschwander as Bankier Amstutz

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales: The Party Film Sales

Worldwide Distribution

Czech Republic: Film Europe Media Company Distribution
Release date: 06.03.2014
France: Solaris Distribution Distribution
Release date: 27.02.2013
Slovakia: Film Europe Media Company Distribution
Release date: 06.03.2014
Spain: Silenzio Films S.L. Distribution
Release date: 22.03.2013
Switzerland: Filmcoopi Zürich AG Distribution
Release date: tba