Richard Dindo

Most Popular Richard Dindo Trailers

Total trailers found: 21

Max Frisch, Journal I-III Trailer (1981)

20 January 1981

A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries.

Grüningers Fall Trailer (1998)

16 February 1998

The Grüninger case from Switzerland. This is a documentary about a police officer who showed civil courage back in the forties when he led many refugees fleeing German Nazi terror immigrate to Switzerland, although he was advised not to do so.

Who was Kafka? Trailer (2006)

02 February 2006

Filmmaker Richard Dindo's unique documentary uses historical reenactments and speculative "interviews" of historical figures to paint a fascinating portrait of one of the most influential writers of modern literature, renowned author Franz Kafka.

Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography Trailer (1991)

20 November 1991

The tragic life of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as told by characters that knew him.

Charlotte : « Vie ou théâtre ? » Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Portrait of the German and Jewish painter who lived during the war in the south of France, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where she painted 769 gouaches which recount her life, from her childhood, the suicide of her mother, her relationship to her father, to her mother-in-law, the singer Paula Lindberg, to a teacher whom she was secretly in love with, her flight to France, the reunion with her grandparents, until her arrest by the Gestapo who sent her to Auschwitz where she was assassinated in 1943.

Genet à Chatila Trailer (1999)

24 November 1999

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp.

Trois jeunes femmes (entre la vie et la mort) Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

A film about three young women aged between 20 and 25, who all have an attempted suicide in their past.

Gauguin à Tahiti et aux Marquises Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

A documentary film about Paul Gauguin’s final years in Tahiti and on the Marquesas Islands. The filming of his paintings is set in the magnificent oceanic landscape from which they emerged, commented on by Gauguin himself with quotes taken from his autobiographical works and letters.

La Maternité des HUG Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

With his discrete gaze, filmmaker Richard Dindo observes the busy comings and goings of a maternity ward in Geneva.

La maladie de la mémoire Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

The first sequence shows us an elderly woman in the process of taking a test which seems extremely simple.

HUG, les hôpitaux universitaires de Genève Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

This documentary about the canton of Geneva’s University Hospital focuses less on the technology of modern medicine, or the ubiquity of doctors, than on the destiny of ordinary people: the hospital as a shrine of humanity.

Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary Trailer (1994)

24 February 1994

A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas

The Voyage of Bashô Trailer (2019)

07 March 2019

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry.

Homo Faber (Trois femmes) Trailer (2015)

24 January 2015

A man turning 50 (Walter Faber) narrates his liaisons with three women: Hanna, who was pregnant and left him many years ago in Zurich; Ivy, who broke up with him recently in New York; Sabeth who is 20 and whom he just met on a boat to Europe.

The Execution of the Traitor to the Homeland Ernst S. Trailer (1976)

26 September 1976

During World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S.

Dani, Michi, Renato & Max Trailer (1988)

15 February 1988

A three-part documentary about four young men who were active members of the Zurich youth movement in the early 1980s and died tragically as a result of “accidents” with the involvement of the police.

Aragon, le roman de Matisse Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

In 1941, the writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet fled the Nazi-occupied zone of France, arriving in Nice.

Bailey House: To Live as Long as You Can Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

Everyday life in a house where death is omnipresent, but in which, in contrast to a retirement home, mainly younger people live.

The Marsdreamers Trailer (2009)

20 November 2009

In southern California's Mojave Desert, members of the Mars Society - a loosely connected group of people who live modestly but spend time planning a better life on the Red Planet - don homemade spacesuits and wander the Mojave, conjuring a dry Martian landscape.

Schweizer im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg Trailer (1974)

02 February 1974

Portraits of some Swiss men and women, who fought between 1936 and 1938 in the International Brigades to defend the Spanish Republic against the putsch of General Franco.

Neither Forget nor Forgiveness Trailer (2004)

29 January 2004

During the summer of 1968, students from all over Mexico gathered in the capital to demand democracy.