Film

Mirage de la vie : Portrait de Douglas Sirk

Retrospettiva: Homages

Switzerland · 1983 · DCP 2K · Color · 59' · o.v. German / English

Digitisation by the Cinémathèque suisse.

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For four days in 1983, Daniel Schmid and cameraman Renato Berta filmed Sirk at his home in Ruvigliana. These are the last images of him, four years before his death: a room in shadow, his dark glasses hiding his eyes. “He was of an absolutely prodigious culture”. (R. Berta)


Information

Director

Daniel Schmid

Screenplay

Daniel Schmid

Cast

Douglas Sirk, Hilde Jary

Producer

Daniel Schmid

Cinematography

Renato Berta

Editing

Luc Yersin

Production

télévision suisse romande (tsr)

Print

Cinémathèque suisse - Lausanne