Familientreffen – Marthaler Theater im Grand Hotel

Family Reunion – Marthaler’s Drama In A Grand Hotel

Switzerland, April 2009
FILM, Documentary, 60 min.

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directed by
Sarah Derendinger
Written by
Sarah Derendinger
Status
In distribution

With a rolling of carpets and a covering of furniture, a Grand Hotel in the Swiss alps ushers in the off season, while director Christoph Marthaler and his theatrical family rob the hotel of its sleep. Musician-member of the troupe and scion of the hotel family, Jürg Kienberger reflects with subtle irony upon the evolution of a Marthaler production. Over the course of weeks, the actors, quirky loners who are united when they sing, summon the ghosts from 100 years of the hotel’s history as they rehearse. A feast of music and poetry, at once jovial and saturnine.

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World Premiere
April 2009
Original Version
German,  colour, Digi Beta, 60 min.
Production
freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Producer
Stella Händler, Claudia Frei
directed by
Sarah Derendinger
Written by
Sarah Derendinger
Cinemato­graphy
Matthias Kälin, Sarah Derendinger
Editing
Ruth Schläpfer
Location Sound Mix
Balthasar Jucker

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