Epoca

Switzerland, February 2002
FILM, Documentary, 90 min.

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directed by
Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser
Written by
Andreas Hoessli
Status
In distribution

What goes down in history? What will be remembered; what shapes the contours of an epoch? The 20th century: Pictures, dredged up from the remains of history. Historical events re-staged for the future. Fragments, memories, unpublished documents are intertwined, colliding with and contradicting one another. The result is a new portrayal, a dimension of authentic proximity. The journey through time touches upon the genesis of the atomic bomb, military trials at the end of the war, the functional workings of the lie detector, the discovery of the Majdanek death camp. Einstein speaks, as does the embalmer of Lenin, the KGB agent, and the presumed US spy who made a new life in the Soviet Union. A report based on a dialogue with F., a soldier in the war in ex-Yugoslavia.

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World Premiere
February 2002
Original Version
English, Polish, Russian, German, Croatian (german subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 90 min.
Production
Espaces Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
directed by
Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser
Written by
Andreas Hoessli
Cinemato­graphy
Matthias Kälin
Editing
Isabella Huser, Andreas Hoessli, Kamal Musale
Music
Peter Scherer
Location Sound Mix
Kamal Musale

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Espaces Film GmbH

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Switzerland
Xenix Filmdistribution GmbH Distribution

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