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cover80/siamoitalianiseptemberwind.jpg SIAMO ITALIANI und SEPTEMBERWIND by Alexander J. Seiler
SIAMO ITALIANI (THE ITALIANS) was 'the thunderbolt that rudely awakened Swiss cinema from the slumbers in which it had been since the end of the War'. Seiler's cameras descended from the lofty Alpine peaks into the streets of everyday life. Siamo Italiani marked an ideological and stylistic change in Swiss filmmaking and now cinema was to be seized upon as a critical tool and means of personal expression. Seiler revealed the Swiss as more than a nation that hid behind their banal defensiveness and hypocritical neutralism". 40 years later, Seiler visits the protagonists and makes a second film.
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