| Hidden Heart |
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| Directors: Cristina Karrer, Werner Schweizer |
| Running time: 97 ’ - Switzerland, Germany, 2007 |
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| Director’s Bio |
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Werner Schweizer was born in Luzern in 1955 and went to school in Solothurn, Bern and Schwyz. At the University of Zurich, he studied sociology, journalism, and European folk literature. He is also a graduate of EAVE (European Post Graduate Certi¬ficate in Audiovisual Production), 1990, and was the resident producer at the «atelier zerodeux», 2001-2003; a documenty workshop for young film students at the EXPO 02.
Cristina Karrer was born in 1960 in Zurich. From 1980 to 1989 she studied geogra¬phy and social history at the University of Zurich. She directed a variety of docu¬mentaries on Tadjikistan, Kirgistan, Yemen and Azerbaijan and in 1991 received the Zurich Journalist Prize for her outstanding work. Today, Karrer lives in Johannes¬burg, where she works for the Swiss television as an independent correspondent for Africa.
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| Contact Director |
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Werner Schweizer, Cristina Karrer
Zentralstrasse 156,
CH-8003 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 456 30 20
E-mail: office@dschointventschr.ch |
| Filmography |
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2006 Forests of Hope, Kenia (Documentary, 43’ ARTE/SF)
2005 Africa in Switzerland (Documentary 30’on QUER, SF)
2004 HöllenTour (Documentary, 120’ Co-director with Pepe Danquart)
2003 voyage, voyage: Engadine (TV-Doc, 45’ for ARTE/SF TvR)
2002 Von Werra (Documentary, 100’)
1999 In der Stille Gottes (Documentary 30’, Sternstunde/SF)
1997 Water in Jemen (Documentary 30’)
1996 Noël Field – the fictitious spy (Documentary, 104’)
1995 Ser ca Van (Documentary 60’, SF)
1989 Dynamit am Simplon (100’ 16mm)
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| Festival-Screenings |
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2008 Solothurner Filmtage (Switzerland) Nominated for Prix du Public
Pre buay VLE (Finland), 4 years, 4 broadcasts
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| Director: Cristina Karrer, Werner Schweizer |
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| Script: Cristina Karrer, Werner Schweizer |
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| Production: Dschoint Ventschr & Lictblick Film |
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| Camera: Michael Hammon |
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| Graphics: Fabian Reber, Martina Rieder |
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| Music:Fire Life Production |
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Editing: Patrica Wagner
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| About the film |
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| December 1967 - a night that changed the world. The first human heart has been successfully transplanted in Cape Town, South Africa, a country where racial segregation was entrenched as nowhere else in the world. The heart surgeon Barnard shot overnight to fame as no other doctor before or thereafter. However, Barnard didn't write the success-story alone. Post-Apartheid 2001: International newspapers suddenly claim that Hamilton Naki, the gardener, was equally part of the sensational operation. Hidden Heart is a film about two men, glamour, injustice and uprising. |
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Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
Zentralstrasse 156, CH-8003 Zurich
Tel: +41 44 456 30 20
Fax: +41 44 456 30 25
E-mail: office@dschointventschr.ch |
| Director’s Statement |
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| Until the end of Apartheid, nobody ever talked about Hamilton Naki. Only afterwards he was ‘discovered’ and – just like Barnard - turned into a celebrity. |
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