Gespräch im Gebirg

Conversation in the Mountains – A Reader's Report
Dialogue dans la montagne – Compte rendu d'un lecteur

Switzerland, February 2000
FILM, Documentary, 59 min.

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directed by: Mattias Caduff Probst
Written by: Mattias Caduff Probst
Status: In distribution
Website: www.dschointventschr.ch

In July 1959 the Jewish poet Paul Celan travels from Paris to Sils-Maria for a holiday, in the company of his wife and child. During his stay in the Engadine he hopes to meet the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, whose aphorism “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric” launched a controversy on the justifiability of art in a world that has experienced the holocaust. However since Adorno did not appear, the meeting was unable to take place. Celan cut short his holiday, and on his return to Paris penned the painfully beautiful story “Gespräch im Gebirg” (Conversation in the Mountains), in which two Jews meet in the mountains in the middle of the night for a conversation. In this film, Mattias Caduff attempts a very personal approach to this difficult text, an approach which includes considering his own point of view as a reader.

credits

World Premiere: February 2000
Original Version: German (english subtitles), colour, 16mm, 59 min.
Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Mattias Caduff Filmproduktion
Producer
directed by: Mattias Caduff Probst
Written by: Mattias Caduff Probst
Cinematography: Mattias Caduff Probst
Editing: Mattias Caduff Probst
Re-Recording Mix: Florian Eidenbenz
Location Sound Mix: Jürgen Jansen, Florian Eidenbenz

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG Distribution
Release date: tba

Awards

(a selection)

Zürich, Filmpreis Stadt Zürich, Zürcher Filmpreis 2000 (Winner)

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