Swiss success stories at the Locarno Film Festival
17.08.2000
Actress Sabine Timoteo won the Bronze Leopard for her convincing portrayal of Marie in the road movie "L’amour, l’argent, l’amour". The documentary film "Do It" by Sabine Gisiger and Marcel Zwingli won the Critic's Week Award. "Blue End" by Kaspar Kasics received honourable mention from the same jury.
Sabine Timoteo is the actress in German director Philipp Gröning's film, which is also a Swiss minority co-production. She plays a young streetwalker who meets the young, jobless David and travels with him during the cold German winter searching for love.
The actress, who was born in 1975, grew up in Bern and Lausanne and initially completed her studies in classical ballet and worked as a dancer before studying with John Costopoulos and Jerzy Grotowski to become an actress. She was a member of Carlotta Ikeda's Butoh Company in Paris, and now lives in Bern.
“Do It”, enthusiastically received by the press and public, follows the story of Daniele von Arb who, at the age of 16, joined the revolutionary underground with a group of friends and who made headlines some years later as a Swiss terrorist. Today, von Arb is a palm-reader and can occasionally laugh heartily about his past. "Do It" is, according to both directors, "a parable about seeking the right way in the profane and godforsaken Western societies, and an appeal for one's right to become someone else".
"Blue End" by Kaspar Kasics ("Closed Country") was acknowledged by the Critic's Week jury for its "emotionally discerning approach to a complex theme that ranges between fascination and horror".
The actress, who was born in 1975, grew up in Bern and Lausanne and initially completed her studies in classical ballet and worked as a dancer before studying with John Costopoulos and Jerzy Grotowski to become an actress. She was a member of Carlotta Ikeda's Butoh Company in Paris, and now lives in Bern.
“Do It”, enthusiastically received by the press and public, follows the story of Daniele von Arb who, at the age of 16, joined the revolutionary underground with a group of friends and who made headlines some years later as a Swiss terrorist. Today, von Arb is a palm-reader and can occasionally laugh heartily about his past. "Do It" is, according to both directors, "a parable about seeking the right way in the profane and godforsaken Western societies, and an appeal for one's right to become someone else".
"Blue End" by Kaspar Kasics ("Closed Country") was acknowledged by the Critic's Week jury for its "emotionally discerning approach to a complex theme that ranges between fascination and horror".