Chris the Swiss | |
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Directed by | Anja Kofmel |
Written by | Anja Kofmel |
Produced by | Samir
Sinisa Juricic Heino Deckert Iikka Vehkalahti |
Cinematography | Simon Guy Fässler
Philipp Künzli Gabriel Sandru |
Edited by | Stefan Kälin
Sophie Brunner Vladimir Gojun Višnja Skorin |
Music by | Marcel Vaid |
Distributed by | Switzerland: First Hand Films GmbH
France: Urban Distribution International |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Switzerland |
Language | German |
Chris the Swiss is a 2018 Swiss animated documentary film directed by Anja Kofmel. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]
Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter said "Swiss director Anja Kofmel revisits the wild life and strange death of her war reporter cousin with an innovative blend of animation and documentary".[3] Jessica Kiang from Variety praises the animation "Her animations are particularly lovely, evoking the hero worship she felt as a child for her larger-than-life relative — the boldly drawn continuous lines of black and white, solid and simple, in which Chris forever wears an identifying stripy scarf, and the bad guys, like Chico with his dark-ringed eyes and widow’s peak, have the decency to look like villains."[4]