La montagne muette
Switzerland / United States, January 1997
FILM,
Fiction,
80 min.
- directed by
- Frédéric Gonseth
- Written by
- Frédéric Gonseth, Catherine Azad
- Status
- In distribution
At a mountain cabin high in the Alps of canton Valais, we meet three people: a German engineer who lives in Switzerland, a Ukrainian girl who came to Switzerland on a tourist visa but manages to find work as an assistant alpine hut guard and a Swiss aged about fifty. Each in turn discovers that a common thread links their past, going back to World War II. The engineer's father was an SS officer, who with an ironhand ruled over the Maggi factory in Singen near the Swiss border. The grandparents of Oxana were rounded up as teenagers by the nazis and sent to work as slaves in this Maggi factory “labour camp”. Christophe's father, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) during the war, is none other then the Swiss owner of this same Maggi factory…
credits
- World Premiere
- January 1997
- Original Version
- French, colour, Beta SP, 80 min.
- Production
- Frédéric Gonseth Productions, Alpha Key Productions SA, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Jean-Luc Bideau
- Producer
- directed by
- Frédéric Gonseth
- Written by
- Frédéric Gonseth, Catherine Azad
- Editing
- Frédéric Gonseth
- Music
- Catherine Azad
- Location Sound Mix
- Fred Kohler
Cast
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Frédéric Gonseth Productions
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
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Frédéric Gonseth Productions
Distribution
Release date: tba