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Grossvater hat das Meer nie gesehen

Grandfather Never Saw The Sea
Grand-père n'a jamais vu la mer

Switzerland, April 2011
FILM, Documentary, 27 min.

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directed by
Christine Hürzeler
Written by
Christine Hürzeler
Status
In distribution
Website
www.chfilm.ch

With her film essay the director explores her own family history. She interlaces family recordings, found footage and recent images into a visual and acoustic examination of her origins. It reveals the frictions, cracks and never confessed longings, which ultimately betray domestic happiness as merely staged. Beyond the persona, the film documents the atmosphere of an entire era. The unease of the individual is also the unease of a generation which grew up in a supposedly free society, yet lived under the constantly looming shadow of the Cold War.

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World Premiere
April 2011
Original Version
Swiss-German, German (french/english subtitles),  colour und s/w, Digi Beta, 27 min.
ISAN
0000-0002-AAAF-0000-2-0000-0000-V
Production
chfilm, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Christine Hürzeler
directed by
Christine Hürzeler
Written by
Christine Hürzeler
Cinemato­graphy
Christine Munz, Christine Hürzeler
Editing
Christine Hürzeler
Sound Editing
Guido Keller
Re-Recording Mix
Guido Keller
Music
Tomas Korber, Mersault
Location Sound Mix
Ruedi Guyer

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