IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN
Directed by Danielle Jaeggi
Documentary feature film | 2008 | 67 min
Producers : Elisa Garbar, Heinz Dill
Produced by Louise Productions ,Les Films d'ici, Graffiti Doc, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SRG SRR, ARTE
The mythology of sanatoriums was immortalized in a famous novel by Thomas Mann who used them as a metaphor for Europe’s headlong rush towards the First World War : a world apart on the sunny peaks of the Swiss Alps, in elegant Art Deco buildings, where time no longer seems to exist.
Naps in the sun on the terrace, short walks and frequent meals in the sumptuous dining rooms; a world of unique relationships, of light-hearted despair, inhabited by young people, where the echoes of the world are muffled…
The tuberculosis also has a very unusual status: “The whole disease is simply transformed by love”, writes Mann, falling in with a long tradition that sees it as a “spiritual” affliction that heightens desire and ennobles the patient…
A film proposed by : Enrica CAPRA
Written and directed by : Danielle JAEGGI
Participants (in order of appearance) : Vincent BARRAS - Historian of medicine, Urs GREDIG - Historian and journalist, Dr. phil. Uriel GAST - Historian at the University of Zurich & Dr. Marc PERRENOUD - Historian
Director of photography : Ned BURGESS
Camera assistant : Nina BERNFELD
Additional camera : Milivoj IVKOVIC
Gaffer - grip : André PINKUS
Sound operator: Patrick BECKER
Props master : Chloé POMPON-LEVAINVILLE
Props assistant : Robert DILL
Editing : Sophie REITER
Color grading : Thibault CAQUOT
Sound editing, illustration and mix : Jérôme VITTOZ
Archives research : Guenda BERNEGGER
Transcriptions and translations : Bettina GREINER, Barbara ERNI, Heike HURST
Casting german voices : Bettina SCHMID
German voices recording : Rolf BÜTTIKOFER
French voices
Narrator's voice : Françoise LEBRUN
Father's voice : Valéry GAILLARD
Peter Kleinman's voice : Régis LAROCHE
German voices
Narrator's voice : Barbara GRIMM
Father's voice : Christoph GAUGLER
Peter Kleinman's voice : Dominique JANN
Music : Rainier LERICOLAIS
Archive sources : City library of Davos, Timothy NELSON & Walter Reiss
Schatzalp and Davos photo private fund : Benjamin MILLER
Archiv für Zeitgeschichte ETH-Zurich : Jonas ARNOLD
Kleinmann Family Foundation : Naomi KRAMER
Film archives : Cinémathèque Suisse Lausanne, Michel DIND
Footage Farm, UK
Bundesarchiv / Transit Film GmbH
Sources for Moses Silberroth references : Peter BOLLIER
State archive Graubünden : Ursus BRUNOLD
Institut Nyuni•Trayecto (Former Dutch sanatorium) : Dennis VAN DER VALK
Production :
Louise Productions
Les Films d'ici
Graffiti Doc
RTS, Radio Télévision Suisse
SRG SRR
ARTE
Producers :
Elisa Garbar
Heinz Dill
Serge Lalou
Laura Briand
Enrica Capra
Executives producers : Elisabeth Garbar & Heinz Dill
