Gespräch im Gebirg

Conversation in the Mountains – A Reader's Report
Dialogue dans la montagne – Compte rendu d'un lecteur

Switzerland, February 2000
FILM, Documentary, 59 min.

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directed by
Mattias Caduff Probst
Written by
Mattias Caduff Probst
Status
In distribution
Website
www.dschointventschr.ch

In July 1959 the Jewish poet Paul Celan travels from Paris to Sils-Maria for a holiday, in the company of his wife and child. During his stay in the Engadine he hopes to meet the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, whose aphorism “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric” launched a controversy on the justifiability of art in a world that has experienced the holocaust. However since Adorno did not appear, the meeting was unable to take place. Celan cut short his holiday, and on his return to Paris penned the painfully beautiful story “Gespräch im Gebirg” (Conversation in the Mountains), in which two Jews meet in the mountains in the middle of the night for a conversation. In this film, Mattias Caduff attempts a very personal approach to this difficult text, an approach which includes considering his own point of view as a reader.

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World Premiere
February 2000
Original Version
German (english subtitles),  colour, 16mm, 59 min.
Production
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Mattias Caduff Filmproduktion
Producer
directed by
Mattias Caduff Probst
Written by
Mattias Caduff Probst
Cinemato­graphy
Mattias Caduff Probst
Editing
Mattias Caduff Probst
Re-Recording Mix
Florian Eidenbenz
Location Sound Mix
Jürgen Jansen, Florian Eidenbenz

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Switzerland
Dschoint Ventschr Distribution Distribution

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