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Lenz
CH 2006 95'
Director: Thomas Imbach
Script: Thomas Imbach, Georg Büchner
Camera: Jürg Hassler
Editing: Thomas Imbach, Jürg Hassler
Music: Peter Bräker, Balz Bachmann
Production: Bachim Film
With: Milan Peschel, Barbara Maurer, Noah Gsell
See also:
Magic Matterhorn
On dirait le Sud
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Lenz
Thomas Imbach
The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto: Genius writes its own rules. Against a background of kitsch global tourism – provided by the authentic Zermatt locations – Thomas Imbach's Lenz portrays an unconventional family and a man struggling between euphoria and desperation.
About the Film
Just as Büchner based his novel on a real episode from the life of the German poet Lenz (1751–1792), Thomas Imbach freely mixes fact and fiction. Like his literary counterpart, the modern-day Lenz is a tortured visionary caught between euphoria and desperation. Imbach's film captures these mood swings with its eclectic visual and aural style. Lenz' turbulent inner states are mirrored by the elemental beauty of the natural landscape. The emotional drama of the main characters plays against a background of kitsch global tourism – provided by the authentic Zermatt locations and real people appearing in the village scenes. The intimately filmed scenes of romantic and family life provide a telling glimpse into the realities of contemporary relationships. Film and video, staging and improvisation, actors and amateurs, tender love story and slapstick comedy: Imbach blends seeming opposites into an organic whole, underscored by an intense, dramatic soundtrack combining folk songs, pop music and re-processed natural sounds.
An unconventional, stormy portrait of a man whose life motto echoes the Romantic poets: Genius writes its own rules.
Thomas Imbach
Born in 1962 in Lucerne. Independent filmmaker based in Zurich. With his production company Bachim Films produces own work. Recipient of numerous awards both in Switzerland and abroad.
2007 I WAS A SWISS BANKER
2006 LENZ
2002 HAPPY TOO
2001 HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN
1998 NANO-BABIES
1997 GHETTO
1994 WELL DONE
1991 RESTLESTNESS
1988 SCHLACHTZEICHEN
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