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Electroboy Marcel Gisler
Trials and tribulations in the life and family history of Florian Burkhardt who abandoned the constraints of his background to set out into the world in search of fame and recognition. His quest is a mercurial search for identity that ends in fear and disillusionment but also in a comforting return to his true self. * 1960 in Switzerland. Gisler has been living in Berlin since 1981, where he studied Drama and Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1985 he works as producer, screenwriter and director as well as a lecturer at the DFFB Berlin, and other film schools. His latest fiction film ROSIE (2013) screened at many film festivals worldwide and received numerous awards. ELECTROBOY is Gisler’s first documentary film and was very well received in Locarno.
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Switzerland, 2014, 113 min. Festival: Festival del film Locarno 2014 (World premiere) Production: Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein T +41 44 865 66 27 www.langfilm.ch