Light Player - How Lavanchy-Clarke Brought Switzerland to the Cinema ( Lichtspieler - Wie Lavanchy-Clarke die Schweiz ins Kino holte )

Light Player - How Lavanchy-Clarke Brought Switzerland to the Cinema (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Lichtspieler - Wie Lavanchy-Clarke die Schweiz ins Kino holte
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2022 and produced in:
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Hansmartin Siegrist

Written By:
Hansmartin Siegrist

Synopsis:

Fifty reels of the earliest films showing Switzerland are discovered in a French film archive. They were shot around 1900 by the dazzling media pioneer, advertising tycoon and philanthropist François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke. His story tells how moving pictures energized Switzerland and created a precursor of the cinema. And yet it also shows the waning of the Belle Époque, torn between belief in progress and decadence.

Documentary feature about Swiss media pioneer François-Henri Lavanchy Clarke - the man who brought film to Switzerland … film … and Sunlight soap!

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 November, 2025.