{"id":10357,"date":"2019-09-18T12:47:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/chris-the-swiss\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:38:51","slug":"films-2019-chris-the-swiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2019-chris-the-swiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris the Swiss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chris the Swiss<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR(S): <\/strong>Anja Kofmel\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRIES: <\/strong>Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, Finland\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2018\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>English, French, German, Spanish, Swiss German\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>90 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Forum 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS <\/strong>
Thurdsay, 03.10., 12.30 pm, kommkino
Friday, 04.10., 8 pm, kommkino, Q&A with Markus Krohn (Sound Design)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian W\u00fcrtenberg died in Croatia in 1992. Even though the young Swiss had come as a journalist, he was wearing the uniform of an international militia that fought on the Croatian side in the civil war. Why he took up arms has long remained a mystery. His cousin, the filmmaker Anja Kofmel, has confronted the question.
She interviews companions, complementing the documentary footage with dark, pared-down animated sequences which form the film\u2019s narrative structure. Diving deeply into the political turmoil, the film portrays Chris\u2019s path towards joining a group of nationalist mercenaries supported by Opus Dei. A politically explosive film even today, a visually impressive thriller that shows how quickly a person\u2019s attitude can be devastated by war. (Luc-Carolin Ziemann, DOK Leipzig)
\u201cChris the Swiss is a lovingly crafted passion project, especially the animated sequences, in which Kofmel re-creates the kind of dark fantasy imagery that her 10-year-old imagination conjured up on first hearing of her cousin\u2019s death in a faraway land. Poetically rendered in hand-drawn monochrome, these gothic dreamscapes are inhabited by nightmarish figures of evil, robed in sinister swirls of feathery blackness. [It] is a fascinating, moving elegy for doomed youth.\u201d (Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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