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CAMENISCH

CAMENISCH - MIT DEM KOPF DURCH DIE WAND

By Daniel VON AARBURG

DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2001

In the 1970's and 1980's, Marco Camenisch made national headlines. In the struggle against the destruction of his homeland, he resorted to bombs and violence, and became a legend.

- Year of production
- 2001
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Daniel VON AARBURG
- Writer(s)
- Silvio HUONDER
- Producer(s)
- Werner SCHWEIZER (Dschoint Ventschr)
- Synopsis
- Marco Camenisch is currently sitting in a high-security prison in northern Italy. Camenisch was an ecology activist and at the end of the 70's had destroyed power plants in Switzerland, which led to a sensational legal process and a 10-year prison sentence. Following his prison escape in Regensdorf, he was reported missing for years. Marco Camenisch reappeared on the 3rd of December 1989. He visited the gravesite of his father, a customs officer, who had recently passed away. Shortly thereafter, only a few hundred metres from the cemetery, one of his father's colleagues was found murdered. Author Silvio Huonder, from Graubünden and currently living in Berlin, knew Marco Camenisch during their youth. Using Berlin as a starting point, he begins to trace the story of his former compeer. During his journey he meets, among others, Camenisch's accomplices, his mother, the widow of the murdered customs officer – and an entire complexity of tragic entanglements.