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Release Date:
January 2, 2013
Original Title:
Le monde est comme ça
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
ARTE GEIE
Climage
RTS
Production Countries:
Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 51
The film recounts the fates of five of the protagonists of the film “Special Flight” following their expulsion from Switzerland. Having been wrenched away from the country in which they had lived and from their children because they had no papers, they are found again in Senegal or Kosovo, in Gambia or Cameroun, destitute and cut off from their families, sometimes even having been tortured upon arrival. This film broaches the private lives of these broken men and testifies to the brutality of a migration policy that is common in Switzerland and in Europe.
Camera Operator:
Denis Jutzeler
Director:
Fernand Melgar
Director of Photography:
Fernand Melgar
Editor:
Claude Muret
Janka Rahm Melgar
Janine Waeber
Producer:
Elise Shubs
Fernand Melgar
Sound Editor:
Jérôme Cuendet
Sound Mixer:
Christophe Giovannoni
Elise Shubs
Writer:
Fernand Melgar
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