At the end of the night (1992)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | At the end of the night |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Christoph Schaub |
| script |
Martin Witz Christoph Schaub |
| production |
Swiss television Dschoint Ventschr |
| music | Tomas Bächli |
| camera | Ciro Cappellari |
| cut | Fee Liechti |
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At the end of the night is a Swiss film by director Christoph Schaub from 1992 .
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Robert Tanner is an inconspicuous, polite man, a grocery store manager and a family man. In his life there are small signs of great inner pressure. On a Sunday night, Robert kills his wife and son - he commits the murder strangely calmly. The next day he goes on a trip. Initially, the feeling of liberation drives him until he gets into a desperate situation.
Reviews
“Christoph Schaub's cinema seeks closeness to reality and not distance from it. At the same time, it is not looking for its simple image, but rather the atmospheric density. (...) For Schaub, the focus is clearly on the climate. With the help of Ciro Cappellari's camera, he draws a picture of a small town in precise lines, in which life has its own rhythm, many things appear slightly delayed, only become conscious afterwards. Schaub approaches the crampedness of his own home, the extinct euphoria of love, the ingrained course of everyday life. The mood becomes stuffy - and then Tanner breaks out, taking the last breath of air for his wife and child, killing them »
“At the end of the night, violence in everyday family life is extremely realistic. The film isn't brutal in itself. He tries to tell sensitively the development of an unfit family father into a killer. The quiet psychogram of a loser who becomes a monster for five minutes never uses the massive violence itself to explain it. That makes it haunting, but also anachronistic without judgment. "
«At the end of the night there is no film of quick superficial explanations. Even if you get a bit bored towards the end, you realize weeks later that Tanner's emotional tale sounds strangely familiar, that you have the expression on your face of the barren garden seat of your house precisely in your head: a film with long-term effects. ”
Web links
- At the end of the night in the Internet Movie Database (English)