Fin de siècle
Switzerland, 1998
FILM,
Fiction,
88 min.
- directed by
- Claude Champion
- Written by
- Claude Champion
- Status
- In distribution
The destinies of three people, caught up in the upheavals at the end of the 18th century, in Lausanne: Louis Reymond a revolutionary journalist fighting for equality; Jules Muret, a lawyer and politician making his way to power; and Rosalie de Constant, an aristocrat who can do nothing but watch her world disintegrate. The story follows these three “eyewitnesses of history” through the eddies and cross-currents of revolutionary times in the Pays de Vaud, and the nascent “Helvetic Republic”. It is a story of ideals trampled underfoot, and the fear of change in a period which saw Europe embark on the road to democracy. A story however which is retold in surroundings familiar to us today. A “fin de siècle” with a strange echo in our own times.
credits
- World Premiere
- 1998
- Original Version
- French, colour, Digi Beta, 88 min.
- Production
- Intermezzo Films
- Producer
- Filippo Bonacci, Vincent Pluss, Claude Champion
- directed by
- Claude Champion
- Written by
- Claude Champion (in collaboration with Nicolas Buri)
- Cinematography
- Yves Pouliquen
- Editing
- Vincent Pluss
- Location Sound Mix
- Alexander Miesch, Luc Yersin
Cast
Robert Bouvier
Laurent Sandoz
Jacques Roman
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Intermezzo Films
Festivals
(a selection)
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4. Festival int. del cortometraggio
05.11.1999 - 13.11.1999 -
Figueira da Foz, Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz
02.09.1999 - 12.09.1999