The Inventor (1980)

Original title

Der Erfinder

Directed by

Kurt Gloor

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A pacifist farmer named Jakob Nüssli invents things during World War One in Switzerland. He struggles to keep his principles while the war changes his world.

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What happens

The Inventor (German: Der Erfinder) is a 1980 Swiss drama film directed and written by Kurt Gloor. Based on a play by Hansjörg Schneider, it stars Bruno Ganz as Jakob Nüssli, a pacifist farmer and inventor during the First World War. The film won the OCIC Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin and the Gold Hugo at Chicago. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.