Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland
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| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
| Edited by | Daniela Roderer |
| Music by | Carl Hänggi |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
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Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland (
The film is a black comedy where all aspects of Swiss life are satirized in
Beresina was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It also was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Cast
- Yelena Panovaas Irina
- Geraldine Chaplin as Charlotte De
- Martin Benrath as Alt-Divisionär Sturzenegger
- Ulrich Noethen as Dr. Alfred Waldvogel
- Iván Darvas as director Vetterli
- Marina Confalone as Benedetta Hösli
- Stefan Kurt as Claude Bürki
- Hans-Peter Korffas Nationalrat Tschanz
- Joachim Tomaschewsky as Alt Bundesrat von Gunten
- Ulrich Beck as Emil Hofer
- Ivan Desny as Rudolf Stauffacher
- Peter Simonischek as Fritz Ochsenbein
- Hilde Ziegler as Frau Vetterli
Reception
The film was praised by Variety, where Schmid "applies his wicked sense of humour", to create a "rollicking socio-political farce that roasts just about everyone in power." The review also explained how Schmid uses "black humour to expose Swiss high society as a hypocritical facade hiding secrets from money-laundering to pimping, with the banks involved in absolutely everything."[3]
See also
- List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Swiss submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ a b "Archived copy". www.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Festival de Cannes: Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
- ^ Young, Deborah. Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland. Variety. 7 June 1999. p. 29
External links
- Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland at IMDb
- Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland at AllMovie
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