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Operation Libertad

Opération Libertad

Switzerland | 2012, 90 min.

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Festival edition: 2012

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In April 1978, members of the Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire (GAR) rob a bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin America. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation. They also detain the bank's director and a foreigner - one of the bank's clients. Although the bank director confesses to GAR, the Paraguayan go-between 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 the time? A feature film made to look like a 1970s documentary, recounting an armed operation by a fictional leftist group.

Director(-s): Nicolas Wadimoff

Swiss director, documentary filmmaker, producer, rock guitarist. Born in 1964 in Geneva. In 1988 he graduated from UQAM (Université du Québec a Montreal) in communications, specialization cinema. He made his first documentary in 1990. He worked as a film director at Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) and the French Swiss Broadcasting Service (TSR). In 1996-2001 he was a producer and director of films at his own company, Caravan Films. In 1997 he made his first fiction feature. In 2003 he founded Akka Films, devoted to the development of fiction films and production of documentaries. 'Opération Libertad' is his fifth feature.

Director's filmography

2012 Opération Libertad
2010 Aisheen chroniques de Gaza (dok.)
2005 L'Accord (dok.)
2003 Alinghi, au coeur du défi (dok.)
1999 Mondialito
1998 Nuit et jour la télé (dok.)
1997 Clandestins
1992 Les Gants d'or d'Akka (dok.)
1991 Le Bol (dok.)
1990 Arménie-Jérusalem (dok.)

Cast & Crew

Screenwriter: Nicolas Wadimoff, Jacob Berger

Producer: Samir, Nicolas Wadimoff, Michel Merkt

Editor: Pauline Dairou, Karine Sudan

DOP: Franck Rabel

Music: Christof Steinmann

Cast: Laurent Capelluto, Stipe Erceg, Karine Guignard, Natacha Koutchoumov, Nuno Lopes, Antonio Buil

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Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG / Akka Films / RTS Radio Télévision Suisse (Production Company)

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