Fin de siècle

Switzerland, 1998
FILM, Fiction, 88 min.

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directed by
Claude Champion
Written by
Claude Champion
Status
In distribution

The destinies of three people, caught up in the upheavals at the end of the 18th century, in Lausanne: Louis Reymond a revolutionary journalist fighting for equality; Jules Muret, a lawyer and politician making his way to power; and Rosalie de Constant, an aristocrat who can do nothing but watch her world disintegrate. The story follows these three “eyewitnesses of history” through the eddies and cross-currents of revolutionary times in the Pays de Vaud, and the nascent “Helvetic Republic”. It is a story of ideals trampled underfoot, and the fear of change in a period which saw Europe embark on the road to democracy. A story however which is retold in surroundings familiar to us today. A “fin de siècle” with a strange echo in our own times.

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World Premiere
1998
Original Version
French,  colour, Digi Beta, 88 min.
Production
Intermezzo Films
Producer
Filippo Bonacci, Vincent Pluss, Claude Champion
directed by
Claude Champion
Written by
Claude Champion (in collaboration with Nicolas Buri)
Cinemato­graphy
Yves Pouliquen
Editing
Vincent Pluss
Location Sound Mix
Alexander Miesch, Luc Yersin

Cast

Robert Bouvier
Laurent Sandoz
Jacques Roman

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