Reisender Krieger - by Frank Heer (Paperback)

Name: Reisender Krieger - by Frank Heer (Paperback)
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A rumination on the revolutionary 1980s Swiss road movie Reisender Krieger.
About the Author: Frank Heer is a Zurich-based writer and editor for pop music and film with the Swiss Sunday newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, and the author of two novels.
232 Pages
Photography, Photoessays & Documentaries

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A rumination on the revolutionary 1980s Swiss road movie Reisender Krieger.

In the search for the one true Swiss road movie, Christian Schocher's Reisender Krieger ("The Traveling Warrior") of 1981 seems the only choice. Everything about it was visionary: the direction, the camera work, the use of amateur actors, and the screenplay based on Homer's Odyssey. A sales representative named Krieger, working for a cosmetics brand, sets off in his Citroën CX car on an odyssey across 1970s Switzerland--a country in a state of upheaval and decline. The camera revels in parking lots, construction cranes, and vast concrete structures, farms, hair salons, discotheques, motorway service plazas, cheap hotel rooms, and dim bars.

This book transfers Reisender Krieger, shot in 16 mm format, into a photo book featuring some 180 carefully scanned still frames. A conversation with director Christian Schocher and cameraman Clemens Klopfenstein, as well as an essay by Swiss writer Zora del Buono, round off this volume, making it a unique document of a Switzerland long gone that still captivates us today, very much in the spirit of Swiss-born Robert Frank's famous The Americans.

About the Author

Frank Heer is a Zurich-based writer and editor for pop music and film with the Swiss Sunday newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, and the author of two novels.

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.09 Inches (H) x 9.45 Inches (W)

Weight: 1.0 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 232

Genre: Photography

Sub-Genre: Photoessays & Documentaries

Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess

Format: Paperback

Author: Frank Heer

Language: English

Street Date: January 22, 2027

TCIN: 1011742365

UPC: 9783039422883

Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-2813

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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