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DAY IS DONE


A FILM BY THOMAS IMBACH 
DAY IS DONE

DOCUMENTARY · 2011
SWITZERLAND
111 MIN

SYNOPSIS A smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by down below. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. There is a man behind the camera, looking for an image – of himself? Of the world? Of society? By day and night, in rain and snow, he stands filming at the window of his studio. Periodically we hear people leaving messages on his answering machine. They talk about the weather while on vacation and congratulate him on his birthday. His father dies, a child is born, the young family begins to fall apart. Time passes. Slowly the cityscape morphs into the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.
CREDITS WORLD PREMIERE: February 2011
ORIGINAL VERSION: Swiss-German (english/german subtitles)
PRODUCTION: Okofilm Productions, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, ARTE G.E.I.E.
PRODUCER: Andrea Štaka
DIRECTED BY: Thomas Imbach
WRITTEN BY: Thomas Imbach, Patrizia Stotz
MUSIC COMPOSED BY: Balz Bachmann

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