L'homme des casernes (D)

Jacqueline Veuve

For the first time, an independant movie team was able to follow the Swiss Army school of recruits for fusiliers and machinegunners, as from February to May 1993, in Colombier (Switzerland),

The recruiting Officer in charge said: 'When a young man hesitates, I suggest infantry because that is where I need them most'. So 35% of the recruits find themselves enlisted in infantry. Contrary to the summer recruit school, where the students represent a high proportion, the winter school consists of youngsters with jobs that are very much struck by the economic crisis, or with no profession at all. 40 % of the section that was filmed found themselves unemployed at the end of the school.

The film reflects the atmosphere of this school of recruits and the wording which is proper to this particular surrounding. Although we were able to film freely, the accent was put on a certain number of sequences, such as : recruitement, 0 advancement' of three recruits (compulsory non?commissioned officers school), inspections, taking?up and taking?back of the flag, the visit of a priest for service on Ascension day.

How do they react ? They, the most of whom of a professional army, in which they would not take part.

Jacqueline Veuve

Born in 1930 in Payerne. Filmmaker and ethnologist. 1955 Collaborates with Jean Rouch at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, Department of Ethnographical and Sociological Films, and with Richard Leacock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Film Department, Cambridge. 1998 Awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Documentary for JOURNAL DE RIVESALTES 1941-1942

2008 UN PETIT COIN DU PARADIS
2005 LA NEBULEUSE DU COEUR
2005 LA PETITE DAME DU CAPITOLE
2002 JOUR DE MARCHE (Deutsche Untertitel / English Subtitles)
2000 LE SALAIRE DE L'ARTISTE
2000 DELPHINE SEYRIG, PORTRAIT D'UNE COMETE
1999 CHRONIQUE VIGNERONNE
1997 JOURNAL DE RIVESALTES 1941-1942
1997 BALADE FRIBOURGEOISE
1995 OH! QUEL BEAU JOUR
1994 L'HOMME DES CASERNES(Deutsche Untertitel)
1992 ARNOLD GOLAY, FABRICANT DE JOUETS
1992 L'EVANOUIE
1991 FRANOIS JUNOD, FABFRICANT D'AUTOMATES
1991 LES EMOTIONS HELVETIQUES
1990 CHRONIQUE PAYSANNE EN GRUYERE - (Deutsche Untertitel)
1989 MARCELIN BABEY, TOURNEUR
1988 CLAUDE LEBET, LUTHIER
1988 MICHEL MARLETAZ, BOISSELIER
1988 FRANÇOIS PERNET, SCIEUR - SCULPTEUR
1988 LES FRERES BAPST, CHARRETIERS
1988 O. VEUVE ET J. DOUTAZ, TAVILLONEURS
1987 ARMAND ROULLIER
1987 LA FILIERE
1987 LE SABLE ROSE DE MONTAGNE
1986 PARLEZ-MOI D'AMOUR
1987 LA TRAVERSEE
1982 PARTI SANS LAISSER D'ADRESSE
1979 L'AVENIR A 15 ANS
1978 LA MORT DU GRAND-PERE OU LE SOMMEIL DU JUSTE - (English Edition)
1974 SUSAN
1974 NO MORE FUN, NO MORE GAMES
1975 SWISS GRAFFITI
1966 L'ECOLE ET LA VIE
1972 LA GREVE DE 18
1972 GENEVE, lE8 NOVEMBRE 1932
1972 LES LETTRES DE STALINGRAD
1966 MUSIQUE EN TETE
1966 DIMANCHE DE PINGUINS / DIMANCHE DE PINGUINS
1966 LE PANIER A VIANDE

Livres:
1992 UNE FEMME DE CINEMA de Bertil Galland
1983 LA MORT DU GRAND-PERE de Jacqueline Veuce

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