With more than twenty films to his credit, Alain Tanner is considered a pioneer of the cinematographic movement of the new wave in his country.
Le Monde with AFP
The prolific Swiss director Alain Tanner, considered a pioneer of the new wave film movement in his country, died Sunday September 11, at the age of 92, announced the association which bears his name.
“Recognized internationally, Alain Tanner was one of the flagship figures of Swiss cinema and is at the origin of the new Swiss cinema in the 1970s in the company of his colleagues Michel Soutter, Claude Goretta, Jean-Louis Roy and Jean-Jacques Lagrange, “she wrote in a statement released” in consultation with his family “. This “group of five” aroused a revival of the seventh Swiss art, reflecting the spirit of non-compliance of the time.
Charles, death or lively, the first feature film (1969) by Alain Tanner, marks the beginning of cinema politically engaged in Switzerland. This film, which tells the story of a businessman who has decided to abandon traditional capitalist life to lead an existence on the sidelines of society, when student demonstrations are raging, won the first prize of the festival de Locarno.
Among his best known works are the Salamandre, Jonas who will be 25 years old in the year 2000, the light years, which obtained the special Grand Prix of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 1981, or in the White City . Alain Tanner began his career in the late 1950s, and made more than twenty films.