Richard Dindo

Richard Dindo (born June 5, 1944 in Zurich ) is a Swiss documentary filmmaker of Italian descent. He lives in Zurich and Paris . Because of his meticulous, emotionally engaged research, he is also called a “legal filmmaker”.

Career

Raised the son of a construction worker of Italian origin who was born in Zurich , he moved to Paris in 1966, where he was confronted with the 1968 movement two years later . This encounter shaped him strongly. Together with Fredi M. Murer and Alexander J. Seiler, he was one of the defining filmmakers in Swiss film at the time.

He has a brother, a sister and three daughters.

Awards

His documentary Grüningers Fall (1997) about the Swiss police officer and escape helper Paul Grüninger was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize in 1998 .

Filmography

1970: The repetition
1974: Swiss in the Spanish Civil War
1977: The shooting of the traitor Ernst S.
1978: Clément Moreau, the commercial artist - on Clément Moreau
1978: Hans Staub, photo reporter
1981: Max Frisch, Journal I-III - about Montauk
1983: Max Haufler, "The Dumb One" - about Max Haufler
1986: El suizo - un amour en Espagne
1987: Dani, Michi, Renato & Max - about the youth riots in Switzerland
1991: Arthur Rimbaud, une biography - about Arthur Rimbaud
1992: Charlotte, vie ou théâtre? - about Charlotte Salomon
1994: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian diary ( French: Ernesto "Che" Guevara: le Journal de Bolivie ) - Documentation about Che Guevara
1996: Une Saison au paradis
1997: Grüninger's case
1998: HUG - L'hôpital cantonal universitaire de Genève
1999: Genet à Chatila - about Jean Genet
2002: Interrogation and death in Winterthur - Documentation based on a book about the events in Winterthur
2002: La maladie de la mémoire
2003: Ni olvido ni perdón
2003: Aragon: le roman de Matisse
2005: Three young women (Between Life and Death) (Trois jeunes femmes (entre la vie et la mort))
2006: who was Kafka? - about Franz Kafka
2009: The Mars Dreamers (The Marsdreamers)
2010: Gauguin à Tahiti et aux Marquises - about Paul Gauguin
2013: Vivaldi in Venice - about Antonio Vivaldi
2014: Homo Faber (three women)
2018: The Voyage of the Bashô

Richard Dindo also worked on the script for the documentary AIDS - Live As Long As You Can ( Alain Klarer , 1988).

Web links

Homepage of Richard Dindo
Richard Dindo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Richard Dindo at filmportal.de
Richard Dindo in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Richard Dindo at swissfilms.ch

Single receipts

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Who was Kafka? - Dokfest-Munich ; u. a. with mention of the film "The Repetition"

personal data
SURNAME	Dindo, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss documentary filmmaker of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich

[Dokfest-München-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Who was Kafka? - Dokfest-Munich ; u. a. with mention of the film "The Repetition"