Bal a l’üna

Switzerland, January 2009
FILM, Documentary, 77 min.

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directed by
Kuno Bont
Written by
Kuno Bont, Lucette Achermann
Status
In distribution

“Bal al'üna” follows a trail which commences on Lake Constance and travels through Appenzell to the remote Bellaluna guest house in the Albula Gorge, tracing the life of Paula Roth. She was the last innkeeper of the Bellaluna on the Albula Pass and brutally murdered in a hold-up 20 years ago. Denounced as a witch at the time and mystified today, the woman was rather cantankerous all her life and paid a high price for it. People either loved or hated her – there was no in-between. Plagued by delusions, Paula Roth landed in a psychiatric clinic and was forced to give up her two children due to divorce. From the start, her life was a witche's dance – a “Bal al’üna”. The film of the same name tells her life story and visits various locations of her activities, for she was also a mystic, healer and artist. Parallel to this, the account of her murder is told in fiction-film sequences.

credits

World Premiere
January 2009
Original Version
Swiss-German, German,  colour, 77 min.
ISAN
0000-0002-0B2E-0000-3
Production
Filmfabrik AG, Tukan Film Productions Werdenberg GmbH
Producer
Daniel Schierscher, Kuno Bont
directed by
Kuno Bont
Written by
Kuno Bont, Lucette Achermann
Cinemato­graphy
Herbert Jochum, Daniel Schierscher, Peter Sonderegger
Editing
Daniel Schierscher
Sound Editing
Daniel Schierscher
Re-Recording Mix
Daniel Schierscher
Music
Flurin Caviezel, Franco Mettler
Location Sound Mix
Tobias Wachter

Cast

Jaap Achterberg
Andrea Zogg
Elena Gantenbein

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Filmfabrik AG

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Filmfabrik AG Distribution

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