Charles, Dead or Alive (French: Charles mort ou vif) is a 1969 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner.
Plot
Produced in reaction to the Protests of 1968, it describes the mid-life crisis of a businessman who decides to drop out of mainstream capitalist life and takes up with couple living a marginal existence on the fringe of society.[2] Meanwhile his daughter has been caught up in a wave of student protest. According to Alison Smith, the Swiss director Tanner translated the May 1968 events in France to Switzerland, hoping for a similar upheaval in his own country, and in the film creating an imaginary student revolt in a society that in reality did not experience the turmoil or revolutionary possibility facing France in May 1968.[3]
Cast
Reception
Awards
1969 Locarno International Film Festival[4]
- Won: Golden Leopard
References
- ^ "Charles mort ou vif (1970) - JPBox-Office".
- ^ "L'Oeil sur L'Ecran: Charles mort ou vif (1969) de Alain Tanner". Le Monde. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ^ Smith, Alison (2005). French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. Manchester University Press. p. 232.
- ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno International Film Festival. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved 2011-09-04.
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