Daheim in Näkkälä

Switzerland, December 2014
FILM, Documentary, 86 min.

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directed by
Peter Ramseier
Written by
Peter Ramseier
Status
In distribution

Hans Ulrich Schwaar, the 93-year-old teacher, writer, art collector and expert on Sami culture, looks back on his eventful life while in the home for the elderly in Schangnau i.E. For 25 years after his retirement, he lives alternately between the Sami village of Näkkälä in Finland and Langnau in Emmental. As a burgher in both worlds, however, he feels more closely connected to the High North in old age. Although ailing and nearly blind, his overwhelming desire for freedom induces him to break out of the retirement home and move once again to his beloved Lapland, where he dies four months later.

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World Premiere
December 2014
Original Version
Swiss-German, Finnish (german subtitles),  colour, BD (Blu-ray Disc), 86 min.
ISAN
0000-0003-E040-0000-Z-0000-0000-6
Production
Peter Ramseier
Producer
Peter Ramseier, Peter Spoerri
directed by
Peter Ramseier
Written by
Peter Ramseier
Cinemato­graphy
Peter Ramseier
Re-Recording Mix
Christoph Lüthi
Music
Remo Häberli
Location Sound Mix
Peter Ramseier, Ruedi Guyer

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