A biography of a dreamer Two young Swiss directors met Swiss film classic Daniel Schmid on a ski slope and decided to make a film with him, but he soon died, and they made a film about him. Beautiful archival footage animates the young Schroeter, but he also talks about the camp in the film “Dove” specifically for this film, as he recalls in his autobiography “Days in the Eclipse, Nights intoxication” and literally repeats his speech here. There are footage from the filming of Shadows of Angels, in which Schmid and Fassbinder sing King Leander’s song “Davon geht die Welt nicht unter” at the piano, and a short interview with Fassbinder. Schmid's French period seems to be the happiest for the author, but hardly a creative breakthrough (after the first three German-language tapes). He brings French stars to his native mountain valleys for the filming of Violanta, and they are a little lost in his world. It is good that Schmid managed to put a monument to his childhood in a hotel in Flims, filming “The Dead Season” about a dreamy boy dreaming of a big world on the other side of the mountains. He went beyond the mountains and returned to remain a hermetic phenomenon for all internationalism.
9 out of 10