Théâtre de l'espérance

Switzerland, 1987
FILM, Fiction, 19 min.

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directed by
Peter Liechti
Written by
Peter Liechti
Status
In distribution

These days, such topics as world peace, armament and disarmament have become timeworn, rendering the pictures seen on television and in newspapers commonplace. Fully aware of this fact, I set out - not without zeal - to bring forward once again the well-worn images of the summit talks between Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva.
The film is a reproduction of the days during the summit and rendered, in fact, as exactly as possible as the images, still wonderfully vivid, had been engraved into my memory. I gathered the pictures for the film, on the one hand, as an onlooker in Geneva and, on the other hand, by processing the old television footage.

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World Premiere
1987
Original Version
Without dialogue,  colour, 16mm, 19 min.
Production
Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer
directed by
Peter Liechti
Written by
Peter Liechti
Cinemato­graphy
Clemens Steiger, Peter Liechti, Roman Signer
Editing
Peter Liechti
Music
Sun Ra, Elvis Presley
Location Sound Mix
Florian Eidenbenz

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