Cinémathèque suisse

Founded in 1948, the Cinémathèque suisse is one of the ten largest film collections in the world. As a national film archive, it preserves and restores German, French and Italian-speaking national films. It showcases the diversity of its cinematography which, in addition to fiction, includes a large number of often little-known creative documentaries, such as When We Were Children by pioneer Henry Brandt (1961) or Alain Tanner's first feature film, The Apprentices (1964).

The restored treasures on offer here are an example of this diversity. They include Francis Reusser's The Big Night (1976), a political film about the aftermath of 1968, starring Niels Arestrup, and Michel Soutter's wonderful romantic comedy The Surveyers (1972), with Jean-Luc Bideau and Jacques Denis. But also a new reading of the musical confrontation and power play between the King of Prussia Fédéric II and the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach, in My Name is Bach by Dominique de Rivaz (2003), or Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-1942 by Jacqueline Veuve (1997), which tells the story of an accommodation camp during the Second World War in the south of France.