Traces Unseen
Antifascists in Switzerland 1933-1945
[original title: Die unterbrochene Spur]
Switzerland 1982. DCP, Blu-ray, b/w, 144 min.
The tracks of our history from 1933 to 1945.
Immigrant antifascists and refugees in Switzerland: their living conditions; their work in camps and illegal circles. The Swiss who accommodated them and who support their resistance work as printers or transporters of illegal documents, messengers across the border or through donations.
The vanishing tracks: documents, texts, films; memories, scenes of actions, monuments. Counterpoints to the image of Switzerland as a country of asylum.
Official Link / Website: spur.lemmata.ch/
| Director | Mathias Knauer |
| Script | Mathias Knauer |
| Photography | Rob Gnant |
| Sound | Andreas Litmanowitsch |
| Editing | Mathias Knauer, Hannelore Küenzi, Rob Gnant |
| Music | Roland Moser |
| Collaborators | Aufnahmeleitung: Jürgen L. Karg |
| Duration | 144 min. |
| Screening formats | DCP, Blu-ray |
| Shooting format | 16mm ECN II |
| shooting | 27. 8. – 1. 11. 1980 (Hauptdrehzeit) |
| Versions | Schweizerdeutsch/Untertitel: deutsch; français, english, italiano Restaurierte Version 2020 |
| Release | Solothurn 1982 |
| Festivals | Mannheim 1982 Figuera da Foz 1982 Leipzig 1982 |
| Literature | Dumont/Tortajada: Nr, 408. Weitere Informationen zum Film und zum gleichnamigen Buch (Register, Materialien und Dokumente) finden sich auf der Website spur.lemmata.ch |
| Buy a DVD | attacca Filmproduktion, CH-8004 Zürich Blu-ray, im gleichnamigen Buch, Limmat Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-85791-899-5 |
| Contact, World Rights | Mathias Knauer attacca Filmproduktion Zollikerstrasse 259, CH-8049 Zürich +41 44 493 49 11 +41 79 406 59 03 info@lemmata.ch www.lemmata.ch |
| Production | Filmkollektiv Zürich / Mathias Knauer |
| ISAN | 0000-0001-182B-0000-V-0000-0000-I |
Official Link / Website: spur.lemmata.ch/