Alain Tanner Filmography

Fleurs de Sang

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Myriam Mezieres, Tess Barthes, Louise Szpindel, Bruno Todeschini, Anne Fassio

Paul s'en Va

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Madeleine Piguet, Julien Tsongas, Lucie Zelger, Pauline Le Conte, Julia Batinova

Jonas et Lila, à demain

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jérôme Robart, Aïssa Maïga, Natalia Dontcheva, Jean-Pierre Gos, Cecile Tanner

Synopsis: Swiss director Alain Tanner, who wowed audiences in the 1970s with his art house classic Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), returns to the same territory with this decidedly more downbeat film. The movie details the life of Jonah (Jerome Robart), who has indeed just turned 25. A recent Read More

Requiem

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Francis Frappat, André Marcon, Alexandre Zloto, Myriam Szabo, Manuel Jose Mendes

Synopsis: Alain Tanner (In the White City) directed this Swiss-French-Portuguese drama, based on the novel by Antonio Tabucci. Amid August heat in Lisbon, French author Paul (Francis Frappat) meets various people from his past who surface from his memories into reality. Poet Pierre (Andre Marcon) takes him Read More

Fourbi

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Six years before this story begins, Rosemonde killed a would-be rapist. She was acquitted and returned to working part-time in a Geneva bar. Back in the present, a brand new television station seeks to create a television film about Rosemonde's life. The project is helmed by independent producer Read More

Les Hommes Du Port

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The stevedores of the port of Genoa are a disappearing breed. This documentary explores their plight. For many decades the dock workers and their self-managed union were a powerful force in the sea-side city, but with the encroachment of technology and changes in industry, their number has been Read More

Le Journal de Lady M

Crew: Director

Actors: Myriam Mezieres, Felicite Wouassi, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Lady M (Myriam Mezieres) sings in some of the less well-known Paris clubs. She's a gifted performer and is quite beautiful, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside Read More

L'Homme Qui A Perdu Son Ombre

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Dominic Gould, Ángela Molina, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: Paul (Dominic Guard) is a journalist who is up to date on the latest horrors of the modern world and is heartsick about them. He has a wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and a steady job but leaves both of them suddenly for parts unknown. His wife is worried about him, and she is angry that he left Read More

La Femme de Rose Hill

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Denise Peron, Roger Jendly, Louba Guertchikoff

Synopsis: After moving to Switzerland to be the mail-order bride of an uncouth middle-aged Swiss man, Julie (Marie Gaydu), who comes from an island in the Indian Ocean, discovers that she cannot bear the man. After she leaves him, she embarks on an affair with Jean (Jean-Philippe Escoffey), the son of a Read More

Angels

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Belinda Becker, Steven Weber, Justin Williams, Christina Hoyos

Synopsis: Rickie (Steven Weber), an American, was born in Spain, but has spent most of his life in the U.S., and he plays a trumpet. For most of his life, he has been haunted by a snippet of film he saw which shows a black woman doing a seductive dance in a Barcelona bar. He has returned to Barcelona for Read More

Une Flamme Dans Mon Coeur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Myriam Mezieres, Azize Kabouche, Benoit Regent, Biana, André Marcon

Synopsis: The terrifyingly destructive power of a woman's sexual obsession provides the compelling subject for this psychological study of a woman's descent into madness from French filmmaker Alain Tanner. It is the tale of Parisian actress Mercedes who is first seen attempting to break up with the Read More

La Vallée fantôme

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Caroline Cartier, Ray Serra

Synopsis: This uneven drama concerns the efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production. Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant) finds difficulty deciding on a location for his film and angrily throws out his script. Jean (Jacob Berger) is the film student who is sent by Paul to Read More

Niemandsland

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugues Quester, Myriam Mezieres, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Betty Berr, Marie-Luce Felber

Synopsis: A disparate, small group of smugglers try to expand their income by carrying illegal cargo across the French-Swiss border in this routine tale of life on the shady side. Paul (Hugues Quester) works as a mechanic in his father's car repair shop, but he makes extra cash by smuggling goods and people Read More

Dans la Ville Blanche

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn, Jose Carvalho, Francisco Baiao

Synopsis: Originally Dans la Ville Blanche, the Swiss/Portuguese In the White City features Bruno Ganz as a cinematically inclined Swiss sailor. While on liberty in Lisbon, Ganz decides to soak in the sights, committing his visit to posterity with an 8-millimeter movie camera. His ship sets sail, but Ganz Read More

Light Years Away

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Trevor Howard, Mick Ford, Bernice Stegers, Odile Schmitt

Synopsis: In this quirky drama, a young man gets involved with an eccentric, elderly man attempting to build a one-man flying machine in his garage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Messidor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clementine Amouroux

Synopsis: During the heyday of the French Revolution, the days of the week and the names of months and seasons were renamed in an attempt to deepen the effects of the rebellion through linguistic means. Messidor was the name given to the harvest season at that time. In this story, two contemporary Swiss Read More

Foot-ball

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Écouter voir [TV Documentary Series]

Crew: Director

Temps Mort

Crew: Director

Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Labourier, Myriam Mezieres, Rufus, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the youth protests would finally take form in the world. In this film, eight people in their late tweties and early thirties try to keep the radical flames Read More

Le Milieu du Monde

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this French-language Swiss film, an up-and-coming young engineer briefly finds love with a waitress from Italy. However, he is married and is running for an elective post in his region of the country. When his feeling of coziness with the relationship exceeds his discretion, he allows word of Read More

Le Retour d'Afrique

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Françoise and Vincent have grown tired of the stuffy, constrained and overly commercial quality of life in Geneva. With the help of a friend, they hope to move to Algeria and do something really different in a different place. They sell practically everything they own in preparation for the Read More

La Salamandre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Swiss-made film closely examines the character of a non-conformist, a subject of unending interest to the reputedly highly conformist Swiss. A TV journalist reads of a lawsuit, dropped for lack of evidence, in which a girl is accused of deliberately shooting (and wounding) her uncle. For some Read More

La vie comme ça

Crew: Director

Les Administratifs et l'article 42

Crew: Director

Le buffet, les heures et les jours

Crew: Director

Charles, mort ou vif

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: François Simon, Andre Schmidt

Synopsis: Charles (Francois Simon) is a middle aged business man who runs an inherited company. On the anniversary of his company's founding, he finds himself suffering from depression and wishes more could be done for the workers. After he expresses his views to a television reporter, Charles leaveshome Read More

Les trois belgiques

Crew: Director

Le pouvoir dans la rue

Crew: Director

L'affaire Defregger

Crew: Director

Danser sur un volcan

Crew: Director

Étes-vous vraiment si laid?

Crew: Director

Le creux de la vague

Crew: Director

Mike et l'usage de science

Crew: Director

Docteur B., médecin de campagne

Crew: Director

L'Embarras du choix

Crew: Director

Fleet Street

Crew: Director

Les nouveaux grecs

Crew: Director

Le siège de Grenoble

Crew: Director

Les tailleurs de la rue du téléphérique

Crew: Director

1966 Ans aprés Jesus-Christ

Crew: Director

Les soldats du Bon Dieu

Crew: Director

Une Ville à Chandigarh

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

La journée d'un ouvrier

Crew: Director

Les 100 jours d'Ongania

Crew: Director

Le dernier carré d'empire

Crew: Director

Journal d'un assassin

Crew: Director

Le droit au logement

Crew: Director

Le Jura Bernois

Crew: Director

Être Gallois

Crew: Director

Parti de Ijmuiden

Crew: Director, Producer

Les apprentis

Crew: Director, Editor

Synopsis: This documentary of apprenticeship in Switzerland was funded by various industries and serves as an item for those wanting to enter into a trade. Young people who are interviewed at home and at work explain the specifics of their jobs, but none are particularly interesting. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

L'Ecole

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Ramuz, passage d'un poète

Crew: Director

Living with Danger [TV Documentary Series]

Crew: Assistant Director

Nice Time

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter