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„The Mysteries of our Forest“
A motion picture dedicated to the International Year of Forests
Alan Kocher, FCN ToS from Switzerland
UNECE-FAO FCN Team Meeting, Antalya, June 2012
Film data
Director:
Heikko Böhm, NL
Narrator:
Bruno Ganz, Carlos Leal
Running time:
CH, 91 min.
Producer:
Docmine Inc., Zurich, Switzerland
Coproducers:
Swiss Television, 3sat
Sponsors:
Swiss Government, Cantons, private donors
Budget:
1 million Swiss francs (~ 800‘000 €)
Shown:
17 Open Airs in 2011, numerous local theatres
Television
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The director and one of his actors
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Wild oaks of „Wildenstein“
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The motion picture tells a fourseasons-story:
• Showing the beauty, telling the mystery, revealing
secrets…
• Accessing the forest through people…
• Personalities with a passion for the forest…
• Rather introverted characters who like to retreat to
the forest…
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What mysteries?
What impacts do forests have?
Which secrets do forests hold?
What emotions do forest trigger?
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Luigi Frigerio, forest worker
„Forests are a gift from
God, or from whoever…“
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Protagonist: the owl
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Fridolin Saladin, forest owner
„My forest and I have the same roots in the same
region; but I cannot utilize my forest freely.“
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Complex and heavy equipment…
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Filming: Helicopters, drones, and
cranes were used too…
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Kuno Schaub, luthier and pilot
„I see the forest not only as
supplier of wood for my violins,
but also as a philosopher…“
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„The Mysteries of our Forest“
Narrated by Bruno Ganz (German) and Carlos Leal (French)
“The forest. Whether one uses it or not, it stimulates
our senses and enlivens our fantasies. It even
seems that this large, green stranger can initiate
instincts and emotions in us that were forgotten
long ago.”
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A heritage to use as well as for
romance…
“For thousands of years forests and human beings
were connected by a one-sided and limited
purpose: for man to take what the forest gives –
with near destruction included. Alternately, our
forests have been the subject of poetry and
romance, adventure, myth and religion.”
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The success in numbers
• 12‘000 viewers in cinemas (among Swiss top-ten in 2011)
• Swiss Television (SF 1), 8 December, 393‘000 viewers, 5.4
• 3sat, December 21, 500‘000 viewers, plus Easter 2012
• TSI, 4 and 11 december, share of audience: 33% and 35%
• TSR, broadcast planned for summer 2012
• DVDs sold: >800
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