Camenisch – Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand

Switzerland, August 2001
FILM, Documentary, 87 min.

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directed by
Daniel von Aarburg
Written by
Silvio Huonder-Jenny, Daniel von Aarburg, Fulvio Bernasconi
Status
In distribution

Marco Camenisch is currently sitting in a high-security prison in northern Italy. Camenisch was an ecology activist and at the end of the 70's had destroyed power plants in Switzerland, which led to a sensational legal process and a 10-year prison sentence. Following his prison escape in Regensdorf, he was reported missing for years. Marco Camenisch reappeared on the 3rd of December 1989. He visited the gravesite of his father, a customs officer, who had recently passed away. Shortly thereafter, only a few hundred metres from the cemetery, one of his father's colleagues was found murdered. Author Silvio Huonder, from Graubünden and currently living in Berlin, knew Marco Camenisch during their youth. Using Berlin as a starting point, he begins to trace the story of his former compeer. During his journey he meets, among others, Camenisch's accomplices, his mother, the widow of the murdered customs officer – and an entire complexity of tragic entanglements.

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World Premiere
August 2001
Original Version
Italian, Swiss-German (german subtitles),  colour, Digi Beta, 87 min.
Production
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Werner Swiss Schweizer
directed by
Daniel von Aarburg
Written by
Silvio Huonder-Jenny, Daniel von Aarburg, Fulvio Bernasconi
Cinemato­graphy
Stéphane Kuthy
Editing
Matthias Bürcher
Sound Design
Jürg von Allmen
Re-Recording Mix
Jürg von Allmen
Music
Valentin Kessler
Location Sound Mix
Hercli Bundi, Marc von Stürler, Ingrid Städeli

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