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The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself.Read moreLess
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself.
The story
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself.
Cast & crew
Peter MettlerNarrator
Alexander TschernekNarratorExplore the crew
- Director
- Peter Liechti
- Screenplay
- Peter Liechti
- Producer
- Peter Liechti
- Director of Photography
- Matthias Kälin
- Director of Photography
- Peter Liechti
- Director of Photography
- Peter Guyer
- Editor
- Tania Stöcklin
- Original Music Composer
- Norbert Möslang
- Original Music Composer
- Christoph Homberger