2007 Swiss Film Award Winners
The 2007 Swiss Film Awards were announced yesterday at the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival.
Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (right), which is one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign-language film Academy Award, was selected as best Swiss film of 2006. Vitus, the story of a reluctant piano prodigy and his grandfather, stars Teo Gheorghiu and Bruno Ganz. It has sold nearly 200,000 tickets since its release in German-speaking Switzerland last year.
The best documentary winner was Heidi Specogna’s The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez, about a Guatemalan street kid who, after immigrating to the United States, joined the U.S. marine corps hoping to gain U.S. citizenship but ended up as the first dead U.S. soldier in the Iraq [...]
by Andre Soares | January 25, 2007
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