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In a village of the French Juras, Daniel, 15, and Marie, 14, live in the shadow of their brutal, domineering father, who can only express his love through violence. When their mother dies, the two inseparable children flee into the forest pursued by their father...
Is a classic but biting description of the city Lausanne seen from the inside in its imagination and its history by a native.
Alexandra is a department store thief; she steals out of necessity and for fun. Jean buys and sells stocks; he works on the stock exchange. Since his wife left him, Jean has been adrift. They set off together and are now both drifting towards England. In Jean's convertible and thanks to his money, they go from hotel to hotel, from one crazy adventure to the next. From Geneva to Penzance, Alex and Jean live life to the fullest, laughing loudly...
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"Every landscape, like every subject, ends up looking like the painter who paints it" A posthumous tribute to painter Lermite (1920-1977), whose real name was Jean-Pierre Schmid.
Carla Del Ponte is the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This documentary follows her and the staff at the tribunal as they seek justice for the victims of the former Yugoslavian war.
There are 1400 men working on the Lötschberg tunnel construction site, under extreme conditions. To be a miner, according to Theo, a man’s got to have balls. He also needs a head as hard as rock - and an inexplicable passion.
Through the personal accounts and daily activities working at International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters and in several delegations in the Caucasus, the film explores the various facets of delegate's work.
Maurice Béjart is widely regarded as a master of modern dance, capable of fusing the classical and the unconventional with remarkable success.
In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an inner desire for a passionate existence, while she lives a dull life at her grandmother's country home. The grandmother recalls how her own daughter lost hold of sanity and died on her lover's grave -- and she begins to see similarities in her granddaughter's behavior.
