BigList
Login / Sign up
Jenatsch (1987)

Jenatsch (1987)

Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1987, June 1
Directors: Daniel Schmid
Countries: Switzerland, France
Production: Limbo Film AG, Beat Curti, Société de Banque Suisse, Bleu Productions, Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), ZDF
Cast: Carole Bouquet, Christine Boisson, Jean Bouise, Laura Betti, Teco Celio, Jean-Paul Muel, Michel Voïta, Peter Bonke, Andrea Zogg, Raúl Gimenez, Roland Bertin, Vittorio Mezzogiorno

Overview:

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.