A small town by the lake. Guido is a young man with no desire to work who spends the whole day in the local hotel at the poker table and manages to win decent sums with a lot of luck. One day he meets Caterina at the station and falls in love with her.
After some hesitation she accepts his courting and their love story begins among ups and downs, as the girl sometimes assumes mysterious attitudes.Read More »
In 1990/91 Manfred Eicher and Heinz Bütler co-directed “Holozaen” a film based on the Max Frisch novella “Man in the Holocene”, starring Erland Josephson and Sophie Duez, and with photography by Giorgos Arvanitis. The film was awarded the Special Jury Prize of the Locarno Festival in 1992, but has been little seen, outside the art film festival circuit, since then. Underpinning the striking cinematic images and Josephson’s compelling performance is a rich soundtrack with music of Bach, Bartók, Garbarek, Hindemith, Jarrett, and Shostakovich.Read More »