LONGWAVE
by Lionel Baier
synopsis
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
international title: | Longwave |
original title: | Les Grandes Ondes (à l'ouest) |
country: | Switzerland, France, Portugal |
sales agent: | Films Boutique |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lionel Baier |
film run: | 85' |
release date: | FR 12/02/2014 |
screenplay: | Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux |
cast: | Valérie Donzelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, Francisco Belard, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Adrien Barazzone, Serge Bozon |
cinematography by: | Patrick Lindenmaier |
film editing: | Pauline Gaillard |
art director: | Georges Ayusawa |
costumes designer: | Françoise Nicolet |
producer: | Pauline Gygax, Max Karli, Philippe Martin, Maria João Mayer, François D'Artemare, Lionel Baier, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Ursula Meier, Frédéric Mermoud |
production: | Rita Productions, Bande à Part Films, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, Les Films Pelléas, Filmes do Tejo |
backing: | MEDIA Programme |
distributor: | Pathé Films AG, Les Films Pelléas |
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