CHRIEG
WAR
/ 2014 / 110 min / Colour
Suffocated by an oppressive father, Matteo attempts a strange escape into the woods, taking his younger brother with him. To punish the youth, the family condemns him to three months of hard labour on a remote mountain farm. But this place offers something quite different from the possibility for re-education. The farmer that runs it has lost his mind. Matteo soon experiences humiliation, rebellion, and revenge, and will become involved in a war of violence and destruction against a world of adults that has stolen his innocence in the name of conformity. Among these adults, in the end, he will also find his father.
Simon Jaquemet
Born in Basel, he earned a degree from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in 2005. After his studies, he directed some short films, winning the EDI prize for advertising videos and other awards for his music videos. With Chrieg, his first feature, he won, among other awards, the Jury Prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Max Ophüls Preis 2015 for the best film in German by a young director.
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Subject Simon JaquemetScreenplay Simon JaquemetCinematography Lorentz MerzSound Jean-Pierre GerthEditing Christof SchertenleibMain cast Benjamin Lutzke, Ella Rumpf, Ste, Sasha GislerProducer Christian Davi, Christof Neracher, Thomas ThümenaProduction company Hugofilm
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