Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats (2016)
• May 5th, 2016 • 1h 19min
Documentary
Overview
A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering sandstone cliffs, everyone attempts to live and survive in their own way. Foreigners who have a go at being Swiss, and Swiss who observe with scepticism. They meet in the corner shop run by an Iraqi living in exile, send their kids to a children’s club managed by a missionary, and old drinking mates meet regularly over a beer in the neighbourhood’s only bar. Despite all the differences, they are rather proud of the fact that they come from here.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Shelter
Released on: 2014-08-10
Documentary
It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this l...
La Terre Promise
Released on: 2014-06-04
Documentary
Philippe Savoy head of the choir at Saint Michael's College in Fribourg is preparing to take his fif...
The Alps - Climb of Your Life
Released on: 2007-03-30
Documentary
In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the E...
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
Released on: 2014-10-07
History, Documentary
An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hat...
Hardcore Chambermusic
Released on: 2006-11-30
Music, Documentary
This documentary follows Swiss improvisation musicians and tells their stories.
Exit: The Right to Die
Released on: 2006-10-25
Documentary
Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The ...
Parrot at the Milk Bar
Released on: 2014-10-23
Documentary
A humorous observation in Barcelona’s immigrant neighbourhood El Raval. Four barber shops, four plac...
Zeit der Titanen
Released on: 2002-01-15
Documentary
Between 1950 and 1966, thousands of men set off into the high mountains of the Valais, into a primit...
Pausenlos
Released on: 2009-01-19
Documentary
The film portrays people with different time consciousness. A computer scientist works non-stop. Onl...
Salecina
Released on: 2011-01-21
Documentary
The Salecine meeting place, founded near Maloja in 1971 by Zurich communist bookseller Theo Pinkus, ...
Hugo Koblet - The Charming Cyclist
Released on: 2010-09-16
Documentary, Drama
Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...
Telling Strings
Released on: 2007-01-22
Documentary
The film interweaves the stories of two generations of Palestinians. It tells the story of Elias Jub...
Into Great Silence
Released on: 2005-09-04
Documentary
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
Between: Living in the Hyphen
Released on: 2005-10-01
Documentary
Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries th...
The Wildebeest Migration: Nature's Greatest Journey
Released on: 2012-12-15
Documentary
Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...