Elisabeth Kopp - A winter journey

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Movie
Original title Elisabeth Kopp - A winter journey
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German / German
Publishing year 2007
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Andres Brütsch
script Andres Brütsch
production Anita Wasser, Topic Film, Swiss Television
music Franz Schubert , Michael Ricar
camera Andres Brütsch
cut Andres Brütsch , Patricia Wagner
Andres Brütsch and Elisabeth Kopp at the premiere party
Hans W. Kopp and Elisabeth Kopp at the premiere party

Elisabeth Kopp - Eine Winterreise is a Swiss documentary by Andres Brütsch .

Content and design

Elisabeth Kopp was elected Switzerland's first female Federal Councilor on October 2, 1984 . A previous campaign against her husband Hans W. Kopp , known as the “mud battle”, cannot prevent the historic election. The successful, popular Federal Councilor is suddenly confronted again with a media campaign that is also directed against her husband after four years of competent work as the FDJP head . This time, however, it is not about office stories or a company bankruptcy, but about allegations of huge tax fraud , money laundering , drug trafficking and maffious influence on the government, which are later verified as false by a PUK . The allegations hit Elisabeth Kopp hard because she fights such crimes and feels particularly defamed as a result. When she heard about money laundering suspicions about a company in which Hans W. Kopp had a management position, she asked her husband to resign over the phone. She then learns that the rumor of suspicion originates from her office and is therefore considered an official secret . For the time being, she does not inform those around her except the FDJP. In the meantime, the media learned of the phone call through indiscretion , and in autumn 1988 the campaign was powerfully and openly directed against the magistrate , who was isolated and forced to resign. She is charged with violating official secrecy, but the federal court acquits her. Despite legal rehabilitation, Elisabeth Kopp continues to experience the social destruction of her person, a winter that lasted a decade and a half.

The director Andres Brütsch drives the politician in a car through wintry landscapes to the places that shaped Elisabeth Kopp's life. The images are accompanied by melancholy songs from Franz Schubert's “ Winterreise ” . Brütsch asks piercingly and critically about the protagonist's experiences and feelings and films them through the cameras installed in the car . The dialogue is often interrupted with film and photo recordings or newspaper clippings from archives, which also evoke Kopp's life and fate - from the recording of the girl skating from around 1940 to images of the acquittal in 1990. The ballad-like conciseness of the film makes the drama the events of 1988/89 - as a thematic focus - clearly noticeable. The film does not convey any new facts in this regard, it does not focus on political analysis, but on the human dimension. From historical distance and personal proximity, Brütsch draws a high-contrast portrait in which the majority of the premiere critics see the human rehabilitation of the magistrate and - also because of the high density of cinematic facts - an important, informative contemporary document.

Premieres

World premiere : 42nd Solothurn Film Festival , with an introductory tribute by National Council President Christine Egerszegi-Obrist , Palais Besenval , Solothurn, January 26, 2007

Swiss cinema premiere: February 8, 2007 in Basel , Bern , Biel , Lucerne , St. Gallen , Winterthur , Zug , Zurich

TV premiere: Schweizer Fernsehen DRS , August 6, 2007

criticism

DVD

The DVD edition also contains a supplement, this contains further interview scenes between the film author and the protagonist (49 min, dialect) as well as an interview with Elisabeth Kopp and Andres Brütsch at the Schaffhausen cinema premiere, moderator: Ursula Bringolf Maillard, program “Treffpunkt” by the Schaffhauser TV from March 28, 2007 (25 min, dialect).

Editor: Look Now , Zurich. Distribution: Pelikanfilms , Zurich. EAN : 7640118761078.

reference

  1. ^ Photos from the Schaffhausen cinema premiere, March 30, 2007, Schaffhausen City Archives

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