The 9th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) announced its first films – three Swiss films that will have their world premiere at the upcoming festival. The films are the remake of the youth’s classic THE BLACK BROTHERS by Oscar-winner Xavier Koller, Markus Imboden HILLSIDE, the cinema adaptation of the eponymous bestseller by Markus Werner, as well as the documentary GERGIEV – A CERTAIN MADNESS, in which the photographer Alberto Venzago the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev exception comes into focus.
THE BLACK BROTHERS
Xavier Koller
A world premiere celebrates the remake of the classic YA THE BLACK BROTHERS Tetzner Lisa and Kurt Held in the newly created program section “Children and family films.” The 1940/41, published a fictionalized novel dark chapter Ticino social history: Material hardship forced many farming families to hire out their underage sons in the northern Italian cities, where they were under inhuman conditions as chimney sweeps agents risking their lives daily. The novel portrays vividly how Giorgio rebels against his fate with his fellow establishes a protective collar and finally the dangerous escape ventured back into the home.
As a director, acting Oscar winner Xavier Koller. Giorgio is played by the rediscovery Finn handle, which makes his screen debut here. Beside him, Moritz Bleibtreu act in the role of ruthless trafficker Luini, Waldemar Kobus as Kaminfegermeister Rossi and Richy Müller as Father Roberto.
HILLSIDE
Markus Imboden
No less excited waiting for the film adaptation HILLSIDE. Markus Werner was presented in 2004 with the novel a profound relationship thriller. Two men, random acquaintances, whose characters could not be more, can be applied to a dialogue about the capriciousness of love and beyond in a female phantom, which they always bring each other closer – dangerously close. The cinematic presentation concerned with Markus Imboden an award-winning director whose last work, Der Verdingbub became the local Blockbuster. Imboden was available to a performer Trio: Martina Gedeck embodies the female phantom, Henry and Max Hübchen Simonischek the male antagonists.
GERGIEV – A CERTAIN MADNESS
Alberto Venzago
Third in league is the documentary GERGIEV – A CERTAIN MADNESS by Alberto Venzago. The realized production with great expenditure of time focused on the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, a force of nature in the international music scene. Every year at Easter complete the Maestro and 115 musicians from the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre, a veritable tour de force: the Trans-Siberian Express traveling over 10,000 kilometers strike up to every night in a different place. “We need to bring culture to the people – not the other way around”, Gergiev justified this commitment. With GERGIEV – A CERTAIN MADNESS Alberto Venzago proves once more that he equally at home in the movie – and a firm grasp – as in the photograph.