Les grandes ondes (à l'ouest)
Longwave- Director
- Lionel Baier
- Country
- Switzerland, France, Portugal
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Drama
- Scriptwriters
- Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux
- Cast
- Valérie Donzelli
Michel Vuillermoz
Patrick Lapp
Francisco Belard
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Adrien Barazzone
Serge Bozon - Production
- Rita Productions, Bande à Part Films Sàrl, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Les Films Pelléas, Filmes do Tejo
Storyline
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Festival del Film Locarno 2013
Piazza Grande
Call for proposals Development
Year 2012
Call number 21/2011
Media support 161.000,00 €
Slate Funding (Rita Productions)
Distribution:
Pathé (Switzerland)
