Grüningers Fall (1998)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 40M
Director : Richard Dindo
Escritor : Richard Dindo
Sinopsis
The Grüninger case from Switzerland. This is a documentary about a police officer who showed civil courage back in the forties when he led many refugees fleeing German Nazi terror immigrate to Switzerland, although he was advised not to do so. Grüninger later was sued by the state of Switzerland, lost his job and died in the early seventies. The film constructs a just lawsuit with eye-witnesses and thus fully legitimates what Grüninger did.
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
En 1984 el director alemán Phillip Gröning pidió permiso a la Orden de los Cartujos para rodar una película en el interior de uno de sus monasterios. Le dijeron que era demasiado pronto. Quizás más adelante. Dieciséis años después recibió una llamada. Había llegado la hora... Los preparativos llevaron dos años, el rodaje uno y la postproducción dos más. Han transcurrido, por tanto, veintiún años hasta su completa finalización. El Gran Silencio muestra por primera vez el día a día dentro del "Grande Chartreuse", el monasterio de referencia en los Alpes franceses de la legendaria Orden de los Cartujos.
At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He discovers together with the bear researcher David Bittner the universe of wild grizzlies. The two adventurists face bears at smelling-distance, experience the struggle for survival of a bear family and witness dramatic fighting scenes. Driven by a desire to explore the unknown the film tells a personal story of wilderness, framed in breathtaking pictures of unique creatures.
A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation technique.
Un relato de la vida y la obra del pintor, escultor, arquitecto y diseñador suizo H. R. Giger (1940-2014), padre atormentado de criaturas tan temibles como fascinantes, habitantes de mundos biomecánicos de pesadilla.
A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, except his love for beekeeping.
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels deep down under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry and lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.
Arami Ullón must return to Paraguay to make an important decision: what will happen to her sick mother, Mirna? The heartfelt gaze of the camera reveals a relationship filled with love, but also unspoken and unresolved issues. A sensitive film which examines the inner turmoil of the daughter during the final stages of her mother’s degenerative illness.
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.
She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her life during a vibrant time that kindles a yearning and provokes until today. The story of a woman’s meteoric fate and a great dream. An irrepressible desire for freedom in all its beauty and destructive force - and a stirring friendship and love.
Más de 350,000 toneladas de desechos altamente radiactivos y barras de combustible gastado están en almacenamiento temporal en complejos de energía nuclear y en sitios intermedios de almacenamiento en todo el mundo. Más de 10,000 toneladas adicionales se unen a ellos cada año. Es el residuo más peligroso que el hombre haya producido jamás. Residuos que requieren almacenamiento en un repositorio final seguro durante cientos de miles de años. Fuera del alcance de la humanidad y otras criaturas vivientes. La pregunta es, ¿dónde? Junto con el físico nuclear suizo-británico Charles McCombie, que ha estado buscando un sitio de almacenamiento final seguro para desechos nucleares altamente radiactivos durante treinta y cinco años, el director Edgar Hagen investiga las limitaciones y contradicciones involucradas en este proyecto de importancia global. Los partidarios y opositores de la energía nuclear luchan por soluciones mientras que las visiones de mundo dogmáticas son atacadas por la duda
Nadie sabe cuándo llegará el día o la hora. Ante una enfermedad, acompañada por el dolor y el deterioro físico, debemos hacer frente a la muerte. La perspectiva de lo que queda de vida es deprimente y angustiosa. ¿Qué se puede hacer para librar de esta agonía uno mismo y a la familia más cercana? Suiza es el único país del mundo donde hay asociaciones, por ejemplo EXIT, que, dentro de la legalidad, proporcionan ayuda para el suicidio a personas al final de la vida. Hace más de 20 años que los voluntarios acompañan a personas enfermas y con discapacidades hacia la muerte que han elegido, que perciben como más digna.
En el documental, estos acompañantes y las personas a las que ayudan hacen frente a la muerte cara a cara, no como si fuera un tabú o un final inaceptable, sino como una liberación. En una sociedad en la que se tiene a controlarlo todo, nos hacen pensar en esta pregunta íntima y esencial: ¿no es la elección de nuestra muerte la máxima expresión de libertad?
The Internet has changed everything, also for journalism: business models are falling by the wayside, news is available for free, anywhere and at any time.
Erich Hirsch aka Surava was a journalist. He wrote about the deportation of French jews, and the Swiss government chased him because the Swiss government was Nazi-friendly. The Swiss intelligence service (Bundespolizei) knew him as a "communist jew". In fact, he worked for a left newspaper, but he wasn't a jew. Surava took his courage to write about the "censored" inhumanity in Europe.
After 30 years of chain smoking, Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti sets out on a journey - three times! - to wean himself off cigarettes. He departs from Zürich and walks to St. Gallen, the place were he grew up und also the place where he started smoking. On his pilgrimage through Switzerland he hopes to find the root of his addiction and waits for a final catharsis to release him. Time and time again though, his sympathy for other smokers and disdain for goody-goody non-smokers gets in the way. And time after time his nicotine addiction gets the best of him. His three attempts to quit by walking it off, turn into an expedition of Liechtis home country. He gives a declaration of independence but also a confession of love to Switzerland.
