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Pédra. Un reporter sans frontières

Pédra. Reporter Without Borders
Pédra. Un reporter senza frontiere

Switzerland, October 2006
FILM, Documentary, 61 min.

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directed by
Villi Hermann
Written by
Villi Hermann
Status
In distribution

The photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini was born in Paris in 1927, to parents from Locarno. Emigrating with his parents to Switzerland in 1943-44, he starts taking photographs in Davos. By the end of the war, he is taking up a job offer with Paris Match, and beginning his short career as a photojournalist. Little more than a decade later, while capturing enduring images of the Budapest uprising of 1956, he is fatally injured. I meet people who shared his reportage, trips and adventures: photographers Russ Melcher, Willy Rizzo, Benno Graziani, Erich Lessing, Mario De Biasi. I visit Dominique Lapierre, too, with whom Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini published a book about the trip that they did through the USSR in 1956. In Tbilisi I meet the surgeon Georgi Mosseshvili who hosted the French during their trip.

Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini originario di Locarno nasce a Parigi nel 1927. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale si trasferisce in Svizzera dove inizia la sua carriera di fotografo. Poi torna in Francia e lavora per Paris Match. Muore nel 1956 dopo essere stato ferito gravemente durante l’insurrezione di Budapest. Nel film parlo con sua sorella Marie-Charlotte Vidal-Quadras, intervisto persone che l’hanno frequentato: i fotografi Russ Melcher, Willy Rizzo, Erich Lessing, Benno Graziani, Mario De Biasi e Aliette Lapierre e lo scrittore Dominique Lapierre, compagni di viaggio del fotografo nell’avventura che li ha visti attraversare l’URSS in auto nel 1956. In Ungheria parlo con Làszlò Eörsi, storico e il medico Vilmos Olàh. Incontro anche il chirurgo Georgi Mossechvili, che li ospitò a Tbilisi.

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World Premiere
October 2006
Original Version
Italian,  colour and b/w, Digi Beta, 61 min.
ISAN
0000-0001-9322-0000-L Pédra
Production
Imagofilm Lugano, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer
directed by
Villi Hermann
Written by
Villi Hermann
Cinemato­graphy
Alberto Meroni, Felix von Muralt, Pietro Zuercher, Micha Hädemer, Nugzar Nozadze
Editing
Villi Hermann, Alberto Meroni
Re-Recording Mix
Riccardo Studer
Music
Christian Gilardi, Zeno Gabaglio, Khaled Arman
Location Sound Mix
Villi Hermann

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Imagofilm Lugano

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