Roland Amstutz Movies

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter...

The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in his hometown, Konigsberg, chronicling his last few years prior...

Recording of the play 1789, a collective creation by Théâtre du Soleil at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes in 1970, edited from several...

After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return....

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through...

Everybody takes advantage of Fernand who has just come out of prison.

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families...

After the apocalypse, a group of survivors take shelter in a junkyard beside a nuclear crater. Led by a messianic punk rocker named Emanou, they hide...

Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the...

A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.

This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It...

A man escapes from prison, and leads in his run the woman of his life.

Ali, a young Algerian who carried out an attack in Algiers, hastily leaves the city to join the resistance. But he is disappointed to find that the...

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.

A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state...

In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an inner desire for a...