Gerhard Meier – Das Wolkenschattenboot

Switzerland, January 2007
FILM, Documentary, 79 min.

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directed by
Friedrich Kappeler
Written by
Friedrich Kappeler
Status
In distribution

Director Kappeler returns to the subject of his past film “Die Ballade des Schreiben” (1995), about poet Gerhard Meier. Now that documentary is viewed as an essential introduction into the poet’s work, a man who became a writer after 33 years working in a factory. Two years after the film Gehard Meier’s wife Dorli died, and in 2005 the now 88-year-old Meier published “Ob die Granatbäume blühen”, possibly his most moving work so far. Kappeler’s new documentary expands the themes in his previous one with “Das Wolkenschattenboot”.

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World Premiere
January 2007
Original Version
Swiss-German, German,  colour and b/w, 35mm, 79 min.
Production
Catpics Coproductions AG, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Alfi Sinniger
directed by
Friedrich Kappeler
Written by
Friedrich Kappeler
Cinemato­graphy
Pio Corradi
Editing
Mirjam Krakenberger
Location Sound Mix
Martin Witz

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