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OPERATION LIBERTAD

By Nicolas WADIMOFF

DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2012

In 1978, the members of a small revolutionary group break into a Swiss bank near Zurich. They film the entirety of the action so as to prove the collusion between the Swiss financial system and dictators. The police and the bank deny everything. 30 years later, the tapes resurface

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Directors' Fortnight 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND, FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH, GERMAN
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Nicolas WADIMOFF
- Writer(s)
- Nicolas WADIMOFF, Jacob BERGER
- Cast
- Antonio BUIL, Karine GUIGNARD, Laurent CAPELLUTO, Michael NEUENSCHWANDER, Natacha KOUTCHOUMOV, Nuno LOPES, Stipe ERCEG
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-41A5-0000-0-0000-0000-3
- EIDR
- 10.5240/6C5A-D760-FCDC-F03F-3E9A-2
- Producer(s)
- Joelle BERTOSSA (Akka Films), Serge LALOU (Les Films D'Ici), Tunje BERNS (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- In April 1978, members of “Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire” (GAR) rob a major bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin American. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation. Although the bank director confesses to GAR, the Paraguayan mediator refuses to cooperate, confronting the members of GAR with difficult issues: Should they liquidate this lieutenant-colonel of the dictatorial regime’s secret service? Or take him as a hostage? What should they do with the millions they have stolen from the bank? And the agonizing, recurring question: Does the end really justify the means? Thirty years later, the videotapes of this operation resurface, thus raising a new question: How did the affair actually end at that time?

OPERATION LIBERTAD

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