Epoca (D)

The Making of History

Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser

What goes down in history? What will be remembered; what shapes the contours of an epoch? The 20th century: Pictures, dredged up from the remains of history. Historical events re-staged for the future. Fragments, memories, unpublished documents are intertwined, colliding with and contradicting one another. The result is a new portrayal, a dimension of authentic proximity. The journey through time touches upon the genesis of the atomic bomb, military trials at the end of the war, the functional workings of the lie detector, the discovery of the Majdanek death camp. Einstein speaks, as does the embalmer of Lenin, the KGB agent, and the presumed US spy who made a new life in the Soviet Union. A report based on a dialogue with F., a soldier in the war in ex-Yugoslavia.

"Anyone interested in history will find EPOCA challenging, thought-provoking, and a wonderful adjunct to the many more "straightforward' documentaries... It has forced me to reexamine how I perceive what is not becoming history."
The Sentinel Record

Andreas Hoessli

Studied Sociology and Social and Economic History in Zurich and Paris. Post Graduate studies in Warsaw. Received Doctorate. Journalist. Eastern European correspondent for Swiss newspapers; foreign production director and reporter for Swiss television. Since 1987 director of documentaries for television and cinema.

2006 SWISS SANS PAPIERS
2004 WALL STREET - A WONDERING TRIP
2002 EPOCA (English Version)
1997 NACHRICHTEN AUS DEM UNTERGRUND
1995 DEVILS DON'T DREAM (Version française) (English version)
1990 DIE LETZTE JAGD
1987 VERWISCHTE SPUREN