Eldorado (2018)
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| Original title | Eldorado |
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| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany |
| original language | German , Swiss German , English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Markus Imhoof |
| script | Markus Imhoof |
| production |
Thomas Kufus , Pierre-Alain Meier |
| music | Peter Scherer |
| camera | Peter Indergand |
| cut |
Beatrice Babin , Thomas Bachmann |
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Eldorado is a documentary film by Markus Imhoof from 2018 in which the Swiss director combines experiences from his childhood with questions about humanity and social responsibility in connection with the global phenomenon of flight and migration .
The film premiered out of competition at the 68th Berlinale and ran from March 8, 2018 in German-speaking Switzerland and in German cinemas on April 26. The film was shown in French-speaking Switzerland from May 9, 2018.
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Director Imhoof links his own childhood memories of escape with current escape stories. He was still a little boy when his family took in the Italian "Red Cross child" Giovanna at the end of World War II. It will soon be expelled again due to the legal situation in Switzerland at the time. The two children kept in touch in a lively correspondence until the girl in Italy died of emaciation at the age of 14 .
The letters, pictures and imaginary dialogues with Giovanna are intertwined with contemporary scenes in the Mediterranean and in Switzerland.
Using specific individual fates, Imhoof reveals the background and structures of the migration crisis and makes it clear how they are related to the global flow of capital and goods: He shows a farmer from Senegal who leaves voluntarily with a return premium of CHF 3,000 and two dairy cows in his home country buys to make a living. But he cannot sell his milk there because the EU subsidizes milk exports from Europe to Africa and thus breaks down local prices.
Rahel from Eritrea ends up in prison on her escape in Libya , is forced into prostitution there and is allowed to work as a nurse in Switzerland until she is deported. Jean Quartarolo from the International Organization for Migration explains that deportation is possible because what happens while fleeing is not considered a reason for asylum .
production
Eldorado is a Swiss-German production by zero one film , Thelma Film and Ormenis Film , in coproduction with Swiss radio and television , SRG SSR , and Bayerischer Rundfunk .
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The film was funded by the BKM , the Filmförderungsanstalt and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern as well as the Swiss Federal Office for Culture (BAK), Cinéforom and Loterie Romande , the Zurich Film Foundation, the Suissimage Culture Fund, Marlies Kornfeld, the Volkart Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation , Werner Merzbacher, UBS-Kulturstiftung, Succès Passage Antenne and Succès Cinéma.
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It is distributed by Frenetic Films in German-speaking Switzerland , Majestic in Germany and Filmladen in Austria .
reception
At the beginning of August 2018, Swiss Films announced at the Locarno Festival that the film would be submitted as a Swiss candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2019 Academy Awards .
References
- Official page for the film
- Eldorado in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eldorado at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Eldorado . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; March 2018; test number: 177 431 K).
- ↑ Press release of the 68th Berlinale ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Eldorado at Cineman
- ↑ Eldorado. Swiss Films, 2018, accessed April 26, 2018 .
- ^ Ariston Anderson: Oscars: Switzerland Selects 'Eldorado' for Foreign-Language Category. In: The Hollywood Reporter, August 3, 2018.
