Lichtspieler – Wie Lavanchy-Clarke die Schweiz ins Kino holte
Let There be Lights
Que les lumières soient
Switzerland, October 2022
FILM,
Documentary,
102 min.
- directed by
- Hansmartin Siegrist
- Written by
- Hansmartin Siegrist
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- http://www.pointdevue.ch/d/produktionen/263
Fifty reels of the earliest films showing Switzerland are discovered in a French film archive. They were shot around 1900 by the dazzling media pioneer, advertising tycoon and philanthropist François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke. His story tells how moving pictures energized Switzerland and created a precursor of the cinema. And yet it also shows the waning of the Belle Époque, torn between belief in progress and decadence.
credits
- World Premiere
- October 2022
- Original Version
- German (italian/french/english/german subtitles), colour, DCP, 102 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-A707-0000-M-0000-0000-8
- Production
- point de vue, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
- Producer
- Andreas Weber, Reinhard Manz
- directed by
- Hansmartin Siegrist
- Written by
- Hansmartin Siegrist
- Cinematography
- Reinhard Manz
- Editing
- Andreas Weber
- Location Sound Mix
- Andreas Weber
- Sound Design
- Jascha Dormann
- Animation
- Dirk Koy
- Compositing
- Piet Esch
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- point de vue
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
-
Praesens Film AG
Distribution
Release date: 18.10.2022