Swiss New Cinema movement

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The Swiss New Cinema movement was a film movement of the 1960s–1980s in Switzerland characterized by socially critical, politically engaged, and formally innovative films that challenged traditional Swiss cultural and cinematic norms.

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instanceOf film movement
aim challenge traditional Swiss cinematic norms
challenge traditional Swiss cultural norms
country Switzerland
endTime 1980s
field cinema of Switzerland
genre art cinema
hasCharacteristic auteur-driven
collective production structures
critical view of Swiss bourgeois values
critical view of Swiss political neutrality
critical view of Swiss society
documentary-fiction hybrid forms
engagement with 1968 protest culture
experimentation with narrative form
exploration of national identity
focus on marginalised groups
formally innovative
influence from French New Wave
influence from Italian Neorealism
location shooting
low-budget production
politically engaged
realist aesthetics
socially critical
use of dialects and regional languages
use of non-professional actors
influenced Swiss documentary film
Swiss television film culture
later Swiss auteur cinema
influencedBy 1960s political radicalism
French New Wave NERFINISHED
Italian Neorealism NERFINISHED
New German Cinema NERFINISHED
language French
German
Italian
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movementPeriod Cold War era
post-1968 period
startTime 1960s
topic Swiss political institutions
Swiss working-class life
environmental issues in Switzerland
memory of World War II in Switzerland
migration and foreigners in Switzerland
rural-urban tensions in Switzerland
women’s roles in Swiss society
youth culture in Switzerland

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The Boat Is Full (1981 film) partOf Swiss New Cinema movement
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