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I Was a Swiss Banker

Switzerland

2007

75 Min
Color
1.78:1
Swiss German, English, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, German
Subtitled in English
Audio in Swiss German
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DIR Thomas Imbach

PROD Thomas Imbach

SCR Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach, Eva Kammerer

DP Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach

CAST Beat Marti, Laura Drasbæk, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Sandra Medina, Helena af Sandeberg, Mellika Melouani, Angelica Biert, Lale Yavas

ED Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach, Patricia Stotz

MUSIC Balz Bachmann

Locarno (Appellations Suisse), BAFICI (Foco Thomas Imbach), Berlinale (Forum)

Synopsis

Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling black money across the border for reinvestment. But then a split second reaction changes his entire life. Flagged down one day by a customs officers, Roger loses his cool and makes a run for it. His only means of escape: diving headlong into Lake Constance, thereby catapulting himself out of his life as a banker and into a totally new universe, populated with shy mermaids decked out in Lara Croft gear, and cunning magpie witches in helicopters. As in a Grimm Brothers fairy tale, Roger has to pass three tests to cast off the witch’s curse and find happiness. His underwater journey through an intoxicatingly beautiful Switzerland becomes a fiction fairy love story full of lust for life. –First Hand Films

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Thomas Imbach

Thomas Imbach is a Swiss maverick director, whose work is visual, edgy and performance driven. In 2007 he founded Okofilm Productions together with director/ producer Andrea Štaka. With Well Done (1994) and Ghetto (1997) he established his trademark audio-visual style based on a combination of cinema-verité camera-work and fast-paced computer controlled editing. His fiction feature films Happiness is a Warm Gun (which was nominated for the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2001), Lenz (2006) and I was a Swiss Banker (2007) all premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. 

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keesie

26Aug11

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Jules

17Aug11

I love stories about bankiers. ATM im busy making a website about Dutch banks (www.bankeninnederland.net) but thats all static without emotions...Great that movies can capture emotions.

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