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Political Portraits

1969.
16mm film, color, sound; 70 minutes.
Dedicated to Dieter Meier.
Voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry's L'Homme et la nuit. ( Man and the Night).
Cast : Schönherr family, Claudia Honegger, Dieter Meier, alfredo Leonardi, Massimo Bacigalupo, Hulda Zumsteg, Giorgio Frapoli,Gunnar Parelius, berit Hiff, Wilhelm and Birgit Hein, franco Quadri, Giogio di Chirico, Frieda Honneger, Ulrich Herzog, Karlheinz Hein, Marcia Haydée, Rudolph Nureyev, Bruno Bischofberger, Felix baumann, Anna Giroux, Hansjakob Siber, Jacques Doniiol Valcroze, Jack Siler.
Filmed in Zurich, Rome, Bergen, Cologne, Munich and the Cote d'Azur.
A segment including the portraits of Ulrich Herzog, Marcia Haydée, Giorgio di Chirico, Rudolph Nureyev and Hulda Zumsteg is restored and preserved in Temenos Archive, Zurich.