Dani, Michi, Renato et Max
A three-part documentary about four young men who were active members of the Zurich youth movement in the early 1980s and died tragically as a result of “accidents” with the involvement of the police. The exuberant Dani and Michi stole a motorbike to go on a joyride; a police car gave chase and caused their fatal crash. Renato, a young junkie raised in orphanages, was shot by the police while driving a stolen car. Max, an innocent bystander at a youth demonstration, was clubbed on the head by a police officer, and later died of complications caused by his head injuries. Taken together, these three incidents reflect the tense and violent atmosphere of the time and the conflict between repressive authority and a young generation desperate for freedom.
Richard Dindo
Born in Zurich in 1944, he was the grandson of Italian immigrants who had settled in Switzerland. He left school at the age of 15 and began travelling, working in various food trades. He moved to Paris in 1966. Self-taught, he became a film-maker by watching several films a day at the Cinémathèque française and reading hundreds of books. In 1970, he returned to Switzerland to make his first film, Die Wiederholung (The Repetition). Living then in Zurich and Paris, he has made over twenty documentaries and one fiction film, El Suizo. Dindo’s films are shown all over the world, and numerous retrospectives have been devoted to him in Germany, France, the United States, Canada and Argentina.
Richard Dindo
Documentaire sur grand écran
Jürg Hassler, Rainer Maria Trinkler
Dieter Gränicher
Georg Janett
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