Pulsation

A Forgotten Man

Laurent Nègre

Switzerland

Internal psychological warfare

2022, 85'

VO. German, English, French

ST. English, French

With

Clea Eden, Manuela Biedermann

In presence of Laurent Nègre, Manuela Biedermann (actress), Michael Neuenschwander (actor), Dan Wechsler (productor).

Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich.This is the end of a dreadfulmandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. He made itthrough the war, but will he survive peace?

"And the army's job was to run from Ticino to Jura and from Jura to Ticino, back and forth, back and forth. For God's sake, we did all the dirty work in Berlin…" In 1991, for the 700th anniversary of the Confederation, Thomas Hürlimann wrote the play "The Ambassador", or a certain approach to the history of Switzerland during the Second World War. Heinrich Zwygart, ambassador to Berlin from 1938 to 1945 is the model for his character. This is the same person who restricted the number of Jews seeking refuge in Switzerland or did not intervene, and left Maurice Bavaud, a young Neuchâtel man who stole from his family to buy a gun and kill Hitler, to his fate. Captured, tortured and abandoned by his country, his life cut short by the guillotine. In 1945, the Ambassador returns home, but he is not at peace.
Gaëlle Vidalie

Direction

Laurent Nègre

Screenplay

Laurent Nègre

Image

Diego Dussuel

Editing

Stefan Kälin

Sound

David Puntener

Music

Ladislav Agabekov, Christophe Calpini