Grauzone
A childless couple leads a conformal existence until one day a mysterious epidemic threatens the country. The fantastic chronicle of daily life is also the strong parable of an antiseptic, modern civilization and offers an insight into the atmosphere in Switzerland, five years before Orwell’s «1984».
Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park. The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks. Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years, are childless, and live on the 16th floor of a new building. Thanks to their various crises, they have got to know each other somewhat better, but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity. On Friday, August 12th 1977, a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country. The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast. The authorities order a ban on information, but those concerned break their imposed silence. On Sunday evening, it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of "dress rehearsal" for a real emergency. Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention - but now they are conscious of the fact.
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- Support
- DVD
- Languages (audio)
- Suisse-allemand
- Subtitles
- Allemand
Anglais
Français
Italien - Director
- Fredi M. Murer
- Ratio
- 16/9
- Zone
- Zone 2
- Audio
- Mono 1.0
- Format
- Pal
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