Jenatsch (1987)

Directed by

Daniel Schmid

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

Germany, France, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist looks into the life of a 17th century Swiss political figure named Jürg Jenatsch. As he researches the story, the boundaries between the past and present start to blur around him.

disorientingmysteriousatmosphericslow-pacedintriguinghistoricalcerebralunsettling

What happens

Jenatsch is a 1987 French-Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid and written by Schmid and Martin Suter. It follows a journalist whose investigation into the historical figure Jürg Jenatsch leads him into a disorienting overlap of past and present. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and later screened at festivals including La Rochelle, Neuchâtel, Buenos Aires, and Ankara. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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