Window to the afterlife
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Window to the afterlife |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | O'Neil Bürgi |
| production | O'Neil Bürgi |
| music | Daniel Laufer |
| camera | Emilio Cocciadiferro |
| cut | O'Neil Bürgi, Louis F. Golay |
| occupation | |
Window to the Beyond is a Swiss documentary about haunted and paranormal phenomena in Switzerland .
content
The film is based on the 2006 book Places of Horror in Switzerland by Hans Peter Roth and Niklaus Maurer. The journalist Hans Peter Roth investigates haunted and ghost stories in Switzerland and documents them by interviewing witnesses. Two of the protagonists pretend to be able to see deceased people and hear voices from the afterlife and report on their “talent”.
publication
The film was released in German-speaking cinemas on December 12, 2012. The DVD and Blu-ray appeared in Swiss stores in 2013. It was first broadcast on television on October 16, 2014 on the Swiss private broadcaster S1 .
Reviews
“The film turns out to be a real milieu study. Bürgi portrays people in the scene - as he did with storm chasers in “ Dancing with the Storms ” (2009), an ethnic group that records thunderstorms. The Bernese journalist Hans Peter Roth, the medium Meile and the seer Sam Hess have their say in “Window to the Beyond”. Roth asked and documented hundreds of haunted stories, Hess shows a touching respect for his deceased visitors, and even if Meile's media skills are difficult to check from the outside, he is at least capable of encouraging a widower in the worst phase of grief. Like all skilled workers in the world, they also use their own vocabulary: Spirits are spirit beings, entities or beings, the dead live in the "spiritual world". The onlooker learns a lot ... "
"A solid, absolutely fascinating haunted documentary that has to be credited with the fact that, bearing in mind the Goethe saying," Everyone only believes what he understands ", it approaches your topic with pleasantly clever care."
“Window to the Beyond is a calm and coherent documentary film about a timeless, hotly debated topic. O'Neil Bürgi portrays three men who are passionate about the afterlife and is aimed at viewers who are also not averse to the subject. "
“Cameraman Emilio Cocciadiferro captures the locations and encounters in long, quiet shots; the editing (Bürgi and Louis F. Golay) does not rely on hectic or effects; the often deep notes in Daniel Laufer's music are reserved and yet suggestive. The director deliberately does not want to take a position on whether the phenomena can be scientifically explained and keeps a critical, observing distance. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief description on amazon.de
- ↑ a b Dieter Langhart: Does that exist that cannot be measured? - St.Galler Tagblatt .
- ↑ Unusual sound - St.Galler Tagblatt .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2014 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.
- ↑ The spirit world is unruly .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Window to the Beyond (2012) - Review: Film criticism .
