Full Moon ( Vollmond ) ( Pleine lune )

Full Moon (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vollmond
Alternate Title: Pleine lune
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Fredi M. Murer

Written By:
Fredi M. Murer

Actors:
Hanspeter Müller ..... Anatol Wasser
Lilo Baur ..... Irene Escher
Benedict Freitag ..... Max Escher
Mariebelle Kuhn ..... Emmi Escher
Sara Capretti ..... Yvonne Botta
Max Rüdlinger ..... Sicherheitschef KKW
Verena Zimmermann ..... Elsy Furst
Soraya Gomaa ..... Vera
Yolande Moreau ..... Marie Rochat
Jacques Chailleux ..... Nicolas Rochat
Joseph Scheidegger ..... Oskar Furst
Teco Celio ..... Flavio Gilardi
Angelika Bartsch ..... Ingeborg Gilardi-Hölzle
Gerd David ..... Philipp Eisenmann
Daniel Bill ..... Schilter

Synopsis:

The day after the night of the full moon, 12 children all 10 years of age are found to be missing in the four language regions of Switzerland. The police and the media reassuringly claim that there are plenty of leads and clues. No kidnapper comes forward to contradict them. At the end of one week, all the parents receive the exact same letter from the children, written in cryptic language. By the next full moon they must have deciphered the letter and complied with all its requirements, or else... A dramatic-ironic tale that reveals the current state of Switzerland. Switzerland as a metaphor. Or: a plea for less logic and more imagination in our world.

Fredi M. Murer wrote and directed this Swiss drama about a family with a missing child. The only explanation seems to be kidnapping, but no ransom note arrives. Police inspector Anatol Wasser (Hanspeter Muller) soon faces an elaborate mystery: a dozen Swiss children vanish with no indication of any pattern - other than the fact that they all lived near lakes. Is organized crime responsible, or does the answer lie in mystical realms? Shown at the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.

A family discovers that one of their children is missing. It soon seems like kidnapping is the only possible explanation, but no ransom demand is received. Instead, there are disconcerting signs that the boy may have been somehow complicit in his own disappearance. Anatol Wasser, the policeman assigned to the case, soon finds himself investigating not one but a dozen child abductions. All over Switzerland kids are going missing, and supernatural explanations start to seem as plausible as rational ones.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 06 October, 2010.