2022
Amazing Switzerland
La Chambre
Butler Yvan
France, Switzerland, 1982, 88'
The movie
Stricken with a mysterious contagious disease, a young scientist is quarantined and subjected to inhumane conditions by a government seeking to keep the matter quiet. En savoir plus
Marc starts suffering from an unknown illness after taking part in an experiment. Placed under quarantine to avoid further contaminations, the young researcher soon becomes obsessed with this virus that shuts him away from the world. Made 40 years ago, La Chambre draws unexpected parallels with the pandemic we have recently lived through. The great journalist Yvan Butler delivers a troubling sci-fi story that tackles genetic manipulation and human solitude.
Local Distributor :
RTS - Radio Television Suisse
producers :
Raymond Vouillamoz
cast :
Yves Beneyton, Ludmila Mikaël, Michel Cassagne
Crew :
- Composer : Beatrice Lapp, Michel Morier
- Cinematographer : Pavel Korinek
- Editor : Eliane Guignet
