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Release Date:
May 5, 2016
Original Title:
Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Biograph-Film
SRF
Production Countries:
Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 79
A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering sandstone cliffs, everyone attempts to live and survive in their own way. Foreigners who have a go at being Swiss, and Swiss who observe with scepticism. They meet in the corner shop run by an Iraqi living in exile, send their kids to a children’s club managed by a missionary, and old drinking mates meet regularly over a beer in the neighbourhood’s only bar. Despite all the differences, they are rather proud of the fact that they come from here.
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Cinematography:
Patrick Bürge
Director:
Sonja Mühlemann
Editor:
Katharina Bhend
Music:
Christian Brantschen
Producer:
Norbert Wiedmer
Sound:
Peter von Siebenthal
Sound Mixer:
Olivier JeanRichard
Simon Graf
Balthasar Jucker
Writer:
Sonja Mühlemann
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