Charles, Dead or Alive
| Charles, Dead or Alive | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alain Tanner |
| Starring | François Simon Marcel Robert Marie-Claire Dufour |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $785.000[1] |
Charles, Dead or Alive (French: Charles mort ou vif) is a 1969 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner. The film won a Golden Leopard, the top prize, at the 22nd Locarno Film Festival in 1969.[2][3][4]
Plot
[edit]Produced in reaction to the Protests of 1968, it describes the mid-life crisis of a businessman who decides to drop out of mainstream capitalist life and takes up with couple living a marginal existence on the fringe of society.[5] Meanwhile his daughter has been caught up in a wave of student protest. According to Alison Smith, the Swiss director Tanner translated the May 1968 events in France to Switzerland, hoping for a similar upheaval in his own country, and in the film creating an imaginary student revolt in a society that in reality did not experience the turmoil or revolutionary possibility facing France in May 1968.[6]
Cast
[edit]Reception
[edit]Awards
[edit]1969 Locarno International Film Festival[7]
- Won: Golden Leopard
References
[edit]- ^ "Charles mort ou vif (1970) - JPBox-Office".
- ^ Moskowitz, Gene (October 22, 1969). "Pictures: TROUBLE WITH PRIZES: JURORS". Variety. Vol. 265, no. 10. pp. 7, 29.
- ^ "1969 Locarno Film Festival". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
- ^ "The Festival - Palmarès". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
- ^ "L'Oeil sur L'Ecran: Charles mort ou vif (1969) de Alain Tanner". Le Monde. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ^ Smith, Alison (2005). French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. Manchester University Press. p. 232.
- ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno International Film Festival. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved 2011-09-04.
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