Mark Rissi
Mark M. Rissi (* 1946 in Sargans ) is a Swiss film director and animal rights activist.
Life
Rissi spent his youth in Basel and Richmond, Virginia . He studied art history and political science at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1968 Rissi was drafted into the military and left the USA as a conscientious objector.
Rissi made his first feature film in 1975. The film De Grotzepuur with Schaggi Streuli , Walo Lüönd , Walter Morath and Jörg Schneider focuses on the struggle for survival of small farmers in the context of increasing industrialization in agriculture. The film confronted and sensitized the Swiss population for the first time to the background of egg production. As a result, Switzerland was the first country to ban laying hens in cages.
The feature film Bread and Stones (1978) with Liselotte Pulver , Sigfrit Steiner , Walo Lüönd and Beatrice Kessler describes the problems of tenant farmers; With over 160,000 cinema entries, it is one of the most successful Swiss films. In the film The Black Spider (1983) based on a novella by Jeremias Gotthelf , Rissi combines the medieval saga of the Swiss writer with a contemporary framework. Other feature films followed: the comedy Lisi and the General (1985), the refugee drama Ghame Afghan - the mourning of Afghans (1986) and the political thriller The Husband - The Dossier (1990).
In 1983 Rissi started an anti-fur campaign with his documentaries about fur farms. As a television journalist, he produced several documentary films with animal welfare-related content, including bear fights in Pakistan , Dirty Dancing - dancing bears in Istanbul , turtle slaughter in Bali and animals in research . Together with the publicist Erich Gysling , Rissi was responsible for the Swiss television series Tierreport from 1996 to 1999 .
Rissi is a board member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals and chairman of the Foundation for Bears, which runs the Alternative Bear Park in Worbis in Thuringia and the Alternative Wolf and Bear Park in the Black Forest.
Filmography
- 1975: De Grotzepuur
- 1978: bread and stones
- 1983: The black spider
- 1985: Lisi and the General
- 1986: Ghame Afghan - the grief of the Afghans
- 1990: The Husband - The Dossier
- 1992: Animals in Research
- 2003: The Fate of Furbearing Animals on Norwegian Fur Farms
- 2005: Fun Fur?
- 2006: Bear fights in Pakistan
- 2008: Dirty Dancing - dancing bears in Istanbul
- 2008: goose down, live plucking
- 2009: The fur industry of China
- Turtle slaughter in Bali
- 2015 Earthlings
Awards
- Popular-Scientific Cinematography Award, Academia film Olomouc , 2009
Web links
- Mark Rissi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office FSO. The 25 most successful Swiss films: Cumulative number of cinema admissions in Switzerland 1976 - 2013 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2012 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.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYt1QejS3FE
- ↑ Documentary filmmaker Mark M. Rissi honored for life's work in the Czech Republic , bz Basel, April 22, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rissi, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rissi, Mark M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film director and animal rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sargans |