Operation Libertad

Film by Nicolas Wadimoff

Feature film – 90 minutes – 2012
Switzerland – France

Synopsis

In 1978, the members of a small revolutionary group break into a Swiss bank near Zurich. They film the entirety of the action so as to prove the collusion between the Helvetica financial system and dictators. 30 years later, the tapes of the Operation Libertad resurface.

Production

Co-production avec:
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (Suisse)
Michel Merkt
Les Films d’Ici (France)

Festivals & Awards (selection)

44. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes, 2012

65. Festival del film Locarno, 2012

27. Festival international du film francophone Namur, 2012

Prix du cinéma Suisse, 2013
– Meilleure interprétation dans un second rôle pour Antonio Buil –

Festival International du film policier de Liège, 2013
– Prix du public –

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Sales & Distribution

World Sales : Doc & Film Internatio nal

Distribution Switzerland: Filmcoopi Zürich AG
Distribution Czech Republic : Film Europe Media Company
Distribution France: Solaris Distribution
Distribution Slovak Republic: Film Europe Media Company
Distribution Spain: Silenzio Films S.L.

Trailer:

In April 1978, members of Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire (GAR) rob a major bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin American. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation. Although the bank director confesses to GAR, the Paraguayan mediator refuses to cooperate, confronting the members of GAR with difficult issues: Should they liquidate this lieutenant-colonel of the dictatorial regimes secret service? Or take him as a hostage? What should they do with the millions they have stolen from the bank? And the agonizing, recurring question: Does the end really justify the means? Thirty years later, the videotapes of this operation resurface, thus raising a new question: How did the affair actually end at that time?

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Cast: Karine Guignard, Laurent Capelluto, Natacha Koutchoumov, Stipe Erceg, Nuno Lopes, Antonio Buil, Michael Neuenschwander, Jonathan Genet, Erika Lillo, Sofia Verdon

Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Scenario: Nicolas Wadimoff, Jacob Berger
Direction of Photography: Franck Rabel
Edition: Karine Sudan, Pauline Dairou
Production: Samir (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion), Nicolas Wadimoff & Joelle Bertossa (Akka Films)
Co-Production: Michel Merkt, Serge Lalou (Les Films d’Ici)
Production sound mix: Christophe Giovannoni
Music Edition: Christof Steinmann
Sound Editing: Florian Eidenbenz
Music supervision: Pirmin Marti
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Awards

Prix du cinéma Suisse, 2013
– Meilleure interprétation dans un second rôle pour Antonio Buil –

Festival International du film policier de Liège, 2013
– Prix du public –

Festivals

7. Festival international du film policier de Liège, 2013
31 Festival Cinematografico international del Uruguay, Montevideo, 2013
48. Solothurner Filmtage, 2013
13. Tbilisi International Film Festival, 2012
23. Festival international du film d’Histoire Pessac, Competition 2012
Eko International Film Festival Lagos, 2012
9. Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, Competition, 2012
36. Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo, 2012
28. Warsaw Film Festival, 2012
49. Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, 2012
27. Festival international du film francophone Namur, 2012
8. Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie, Bienne, 2012
5. Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême, 2012
65. Festival del film Locarno, 2012
44. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes, 2012