«The Last Chance» by Leopold Lindtberg As part of Switzerland’s chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Thursday 08 February 2018 at 7:30pm

Suisse, fiction, n&b, 1h44, 1945, vostf, Praesens-Film, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Memoriav, Cinémathèque Suisse.

© Praesens Film Zürich. Collection Swiss Cinematheque.

Northern Italy, September 1943. An Englishman and an American, escaped prisoners of war, are taken in by a village priest who helps refugees of all nationalities. They lead a convoy of men, women, children and old people across the mountains to the Swiss border. Released a few days after 8 May 1945, this film won in 1946 a Golden Globe, one of the Grand Prix of the first Cannes Festival as well as the International Peace Prize.

In partnership with:
       

In the presence of Frédéric Maire, director of the Cinémathèque suisse.

Hosted by Patrick Strauman, film critic, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Price: 5€/3€

Other events in the framework of the Swiss presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Switzerland a land of asylum? The words of witnesses

Switzerland in the face of genocide Sunday, 11 February 201814h30

"Mémoires de la frontière" by Claude Torracinta and Bernard Romy

Switzerland facing the genocide Projections Sunday, 11 February 201811am

Switzerland a land of asylum? The words of witnesses

Switzerland in the face of genocide Sunday, 11 February 201814h30