This film tells the incredible story of a hunter who discovered the mummified body of a forty-year-old man in one of the most remote part of the country. The detailed notes in the diary of the dead man revealed that he had committed suicide by starving himself the previous summer. The man’s true identity has never been discovered. Adapted from the novel Miira ni narumade by Shimada Masahiko, which itself is based on a true story, the film is a manifesto for the preservation of life, a concept that was openly challenged by the protagonist’s own radical rejection of it.
Director
PETER LIECHTI
Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti nurtured his creative flare by studying History of Art at the University of Zurich and then did his applied training at the city’s College of Art and Design. As time went by, he used his education to make shorts and feature films where the relationship between the two primary components of cinema—image and sound—is always dealt with in an exemplary manner. His most recent films include Hardcore Chambermusic (2006) and Hans im Glück – Drei Versuche das Raechen loszuwerden (2003).
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