Opération Libertad

Nicolas Wadimoff

Swiss Film Awards 2013: Best supporting actor Antonio Buil

Geneva late 1970s. The GAR, a group of young leftist revolutionaries, robs a bank with known ties to a South American dictator. They film everything on video, including a statement by the bank’s director confirming the collaboration. Yet nothing of the incident is mentioned in the press afterwards. The government and the bank deny everything. Now 30 years later, the videotapes, believed lost, have re-emerged.

Eyes in: OPERATION LIBERTAD

The film OPERATION LIBERTAD is based on a fundamental concept that was fuming within small sub societies in Switzerland some 30 years ago. I experienced the film as so real that it leaves you with the question; it might still be a totally true story... Brilliant camera work and visual design was done, to give the viewer the idea that most of the film that existed of a flashback was shot indeed at the end of the Seventies. The characters in the film were each of them very typical in their own rights, which gave the group together the image of a spicy revolutionary group that started out pretty innocent, but got too destructive in the end."
My compliments to film director Nicholas Wadimoff who together with Jacob Berger wrote the story as if indeed it is a non-fiction book…All actors in the film, Laurent Capelluto, Stipe Erceg, Natacha Koutchoumov, Karine Guignard, Nuno Lopes and Antonio Buil have managed to play their role in a group as activists, but each with their own contribution to revolutionary ideas in where the interaction of the actors of their inhibitions and ‘letting go’ became the core of the dynamics of the film."
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Screen Daily: OPERATION LIBERTAD

This small but watchable Swiss metacinematic comedy-tinged drama is MAN BITES DOG meets the BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX. Set mostly in the late 1970s, the film tells the story of a Zurich bank raid and kidnapping carried out by a fictional revolutionary commando group. In a way, though, OPERATION LIBERTAD feels more like Lukas Moodysson’s TOGETHER than either of those other namechecked films, in its mix of wry irony and nostalgia for an age when social and sexual politics, music and drugs were all part of the same heady mix. It’s essentially about the moment when a certain ideal of utopian social change began to curdle and turn sour.
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Nicolas Wadimoff

Born in 1964 in Geneva. 1988 BA in Communications from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montreal), specialization cinema. 1992-96 Film director at the French Swiss Broadcasting Service (TSR). 1996-2001 Producer and director of films on behalf of own company Caravan Films. 2003 Founding of Akka Films, devoted to the production of fiction films and of documentaries.

2012 OPERATION LIBERTAD
2010 AISHEEN (STILL ALIVE IN GAZA)
2007 DEUX PEUPLES, DEUX ETATS POUR UNE PAIX
2005 LAST SUPPER
2005 L'ACCORD
2003 ALINGHI (THE INSIDE STORY)
2002 KADOGO, L'ENFANT SOLDAT
2000 15, RUE DES BAINS
2000 MONDIALITO
1998 NUIT ET JOUR LA TELE
1997 CLANDESTINS
1996 CYBER-GUERILLA
1995 WUAND ON ALLAIT VOIR CARLOS
1993 SILENCE, ON DEVELOPPE
1993 LE TEMPS DES CLANDESTINS
1992 LES GANTS D'OR D'AKKA
1991 LE BOL
1990 ARMENIE-JERUSALEM
1989 YEHUDI, ARABI, YEMENI