Swiss film director Alain Tanner dies at 92
Cairo – the middle gate Monday 12 September 2022, 11:20 am
Swiss director Alain Tanner passed away on Sunday at the age of 92, according to what was announced by the association that bears the name of the late who was known for his prolific production and was one of the pioneers of the new cinema movement in Switzerland.
The association issued a statement “in coordination with the family” of Tanner, in which it stated that the late “had international esteem” and “was one of the prominent figures” in the seventh art in his country “and one of the pioneers of the new Swiss cinema in the seventies of the twentieth century with his colleagues Michel Sutter, Claude Gorita and Jean-Louis Roy and Jean-Jacques Lagrange,” according to Agence France-Presse.
This “Group of Five” was behind the renewal of Swiss cinema, which reflected the protest and non-traditional trends of that era.
“Charles, More au Feve” in 1969 was the first feature film by director Alain Tanner, who began his career in the late fifties and experienced the New Wave in France, and this work constituted the beginning of politically committed cinema in Switzerland.
The film, which coincided with the era of student protests in France, dealt with the story of a businessman who decided to abandon the luxury of traditional capitalism to live a life on the margins of society. The film won first prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
Among the most famous of Tanner’s more than twenty films, “La Salamander” and “Lisanne Lumiere”, winner of the Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, as well as “Dan La Ville Blanche”.