Epoca
CH 2002 90'
Regie: Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser
Drehbuch: Andreas Hoessli
Kamera: Matthias Kälin
Ton: Kamal Musale
Schnitt: Isabella Huser, Andreas Hoessli, Kamal Musale
Musik: Peter Scherer
Produktion: Espaces Film GmbH
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 Fragments, memories, unpublished documents are intertwined, colliding with and contradicting one another.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