Gambit (2005)

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Movie
Original title gambit
Country of production Germany , Switzerland
original language English , French , German , Italian , Swiss German
Publishing year 2005
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Sabine Gisiger
script Sabine Gisiger
production Karin Koch
music Courtship Bachmann
Peter Bräker
camera Reinhard Köcher
Helena Vagnières
cut Patricia Wagner

Gambit (ital. Gambetto : leg; in this context: pawn sacrifice, opening move in chess) is a German-Swiss documentary film by Sabine Gisiger about the Seveso accident in 1976. After the premiere in Seveso , the convicted J. Sambeth was the first and so far only to apologize Responsible for the population of the place and the surrounding area.

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In this documentary film, director Sabine Gisiger not only shows those affected and the consequences of the Seveso disaster, the largest chemical accident in Europe to date . The environmental disaster occurred on July 10, 1976 in the chemical factory Icmesa S.pA (subsidiary of Givaudan , again a subsidiary of Roche ) in Meda, 20 km north of Milan . Large amounts of the highly toxic TCDD dioxin were released. It also shows the accident from the point of view of a perpetrator , Jörg Sambeth, who was the technical director responsible for the factory in the municipality of Seveso. According to the director , this was sentenced to several years in prison by a gambit , i.e. a so-called pawn sacrifice on the part of the company, which went unpunished. In the film, he has his say in detail and, alongside other people, takes a position on the political and economic scandal of 1976.

Reviews

  • film-dienst 20/2005: The impressive documentary reconstructs the events that led to the undoing of Jörg Sambeth, the German chemist and technical director of the Geneva-based company. The film not only deals with an individual's fate, but also demonstrates business practices and mechanisms of crisis management that is solely committed to the pursuit of profit.

Awards

The screenwriter and director Sabine Gisiger received the Critics Week Award at the Locarno International Film Festival 2005 . She was also nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize 2006 and also in 2006 for the Swiss Film Prize in the category Best Documentary .

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