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Dominique de Rivaz

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Locarno Film Festival 2003 - Press conference: Mein Name ist Bach (2003)
Dominique de Rivaz was born in 1953 in Zurich and lives and works in Bern and Berlin. Assistant director of Alain Tanner, Jacqueline Veuve and Bakhtyar Kudoynazarov (Tajikistan), she also worked for ten years at the International Film Festival of Fribourg. Her film 'My Name is Bach' was awarded with the Swiss Film Prize for the best film in 2004; for 'Luftbusiness' she received the Quartz Swiss Film Prize 2009 for Best Actor. Her first novel, 'Douchinka' (Ed. De l'Air), won the Schiller Discovery Award in 2009. In November 2009, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she published her first photographic book, 'Without beginning or end: the path of the Berlin Wall' (Benteli Editions & White and Black Editions, 2009). Her second novel, 'Baby', was released on March 2011 by Editions Buchet-Chastel. 'Rose envy', her third novel, was published in 2012 (Ed. Zoe) and 'Game' (Ed. Zoe) also appears in 2013. In 2013 she also published her second photographic book, 'Choina's Sand Men'( Ed. Black on white), in collaboration with D. Leltschuk. Also in 2013, her film essay 'Elegy for a lighthouse' won the 2014 Canton of Bern Award.
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My Name Is Bach (2003)
My Name Is Bach
6.1
  • Director
  • 2003
Aelia
Short
  • Director
  • 1986
Bubble Wrap (2019)
Bubble Wrap
Short
  • Director
  • 2019
Balade fribourgeoise
  • Director
  • 1997

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Director

  • Un Selfie avec Anton Tchekhov (2022)
    Un Selfie avec Anton Tchekhov
  • Bubble Wrap (2019)
    Bubble Wrap
  • Élégie pour un phare (2013)
    Élégie pour un phare
  • Claude Goretta (2012)
    Claude Goretta
  • Luftbusiness (2008)
    Luftbusiness
  • Designsuisse (2006)
    Designsuisse
  • Chère Jacqueline (2005)
    Chère Jacqueline
  • My Name Is Bach (2003)
    My Name Is Bach
  • Mon père, c'est un lion
  • Balade fribourgeoise
  • Le jour du bain
  • Aelia

Writer

  • Un Selfie avec Anton Tchekhov (2022)
    Un Selfie avec Anton Tchekhov
  • Bubble Wrap (2019)
    Bubble Wrap
  • Élégie pour un phare (2013)
    Élégie pour un phare
  • Luftbusiness (2008)
    Luftbusiness
  • Chère Jacqueline (2005)
    Chère Jacqueline
  • My Name Is Bach (2003)
    My Name Is Bach
  • Mon père, c'est un lion
  • Balade fribourgeoise
  • Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-1942 (1997)
    Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-1942

Second Unit or Assistant Director

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  • Paulina Gálvez and Daler Madzhidov in Odds and Evens (1993)
    Odds and Evens
  • Marie Gaydu in La femme de Rose Hill (1989)
    La femme de Rose Hill

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    • France's national library catalogue
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    • 1953
    • Zurich, Switzerland

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