MOVIES - FICTION
OPERATION LIBERTAD
by Nicolas Wadimoff
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In April 1978, members of ?Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire? (GAR) rob a major bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin American. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation. Although the bank director confesses to GAR, the Paraguayan mediator refuses to cooperate, confronting the members of GAR with difficult issues: Should they liquidate this lieutenant-colonel of the dictatorial regime's secret service? Or take him as a hostage? What should they do with the millions they have stolen from the bank? And the agonizing, recurring question: Does the end really justify the means? Thirty years later, the videotapes of this operation resurface, thus raising a new question: How did the affair actually end at that time?
Credits
Year: 2012
Country: CH, F
Running Time: 90 Min.
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Author: Nicolas Wadimoff, Jacob Berger
Producer: Tunje Berns, Samir, Joelle Bertossa
Executive Producer: Tunje Berns
Co-Producer: Joelle Bertossa, Nicolas Wadimoff, Les films d'ici
Camera: Franck Rabel
Editor: Karine Soudan, Pauline Dairou
Sound: Christophe Giovannoni
Gaffer: Ernst Brunner
Make-up: Leticia Rochaix-Ortis
Set Designer: Georg Bringolf
Production Manager: Gerard Cavat
Production Assistant: Johanna Pigelet
Cast: Karine Guignard, Laurent Capelluto, Natacha Koutchoumov, Stipe Erceg, Nuno Lopes, Antonio Buil, Michael Neuenschwander
Awards Schweizer Filmpreis, Bester Nebendarsteller (Antonio Buil), Bundesamt für Kultur, 2013
Publikumspreis, Festival International du film policier Liège, 2013
Festivals International Film Festival Cannes, 2012, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Reprise de la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Bruxelles, 2012
International Film Festival Locarno, 2012
Festival du Film Francophone Angoulême, 2012
36a Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo, 2012
27e Festival international du film francophone Namur, 2012
8e Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie Bienne, 2012
Prishtina International Film Festival, 2012
Eko International Film Festival Lagos, 2012
International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 2012
Warsaw International Film Festival, 2012
RegionFun Film Festival Katowice, 2012
23e Festival international du film d'Histoire Pessac, 2012
European Film Festival Seville, 2012
13th Tbilisi International Film Festival, 2012
Festival du Film Européen Beirut, 2012
Beijing International Film Festival, 2013
48. Solothurner Filmtage, 2013
Festival international du film policier Liège, 2013
31. Festival Cinematografico internacional del Uruguay Montevideo, 2013
44. Festival de Cinéma de Douarnenez, 2022
