Zurich (2015)

After her partner dies, Nina discovers that he led a double life.

Director:

Sacha Polak

Writer:

Helena van der Meulen

Stars:

Barry Atsma, Martijn Lakemeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Barry Atsma	...	Sven
Martijn Lakemeier	...	Hitchhiker
Sascha Alexander Gersak	...	Matthias Fortun
Tristan Göbel	...	Finn
Wende Snijders	...	Nina
Aaron Roggeman	...	Paco
Zinsy de Boer	...	Pien
Lilly-Marie Lenhard	...	Little girl

Storyline

ZURICH is a road movie about Nina, who discovers after the death of her great love, truck driver Boris, he led a double life. Struggling with her feelings she comes to an almost unforgivable deed, and flees. She submerges into the truckers scene - not capable to express herself.

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Plot Keywords:

double life | death | truck driver | nude swimming | topless female nudity | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Zurich (not Zürich) is a small village in the north of the Netherlands.

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Connections

Features The Chimp (1932)

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Soundtracks

Here I Am
By Rutger Reinders
Performed by Sofie Winterson

User Reviews

Good, but hard to digest

At the moment of writing the rating for this movie is 5.9. I believe it should be higher. The movie is very fragmented and therefor it is hard to get into the story, but when you do you're not disappointed.

The movie consists of two parts. First, it starts with a story of a tormented woman trying to find something in the truckers world. Wende Snijders plays this woman, and everybody who already know her from her singing career, knows that she is able to tell a story with just her face. She is exactly right for the role. Whatever the mood, depressed, sad, tired, enjoyed, she can put it in her face. The movie starts with a surreal scene of her next to her car in a canal looking at a cheetah on the water's edge. It ends with a stolen dog being killed by a truck. The second part is a flash-back. It explains why the stealing of the dog is so dramatic, why she is not able to take care of a little girl for a while when she is asked to, and why she pursues that quest in the trucker world.

The structure of the movie seems odd, first a story about the searching woman, followed by a flash back, an explanation how it came to be. But by doing so, the editor was able to use a dramatic scene as the end of the movie. And that really increased the tension.

A clever made, well acted movie, that requires some effort and attention to watch it.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

Germany Netherlands Belgium

Language:

German English Dutch

Release Date:

19 February 2015 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Zurich

Filming Locations:

Zepperen, Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium

Company Credits

Production Co:

Viking Film, Rohfilm, A Private View

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color