"Chris the Swiss" Documentary

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Chris the Swiss. Image courtesy of DocsBarcelona.

In the early 90s, the War in Yugoslavia broke out and young people from all over Europe went there to fight, among them a Swiss journalist (Christian Würtenberg) who was found dead in Croatia dressed as a mercenary. Twenty years later, filmmaker Anja Kofmel investigates what brought her cousin to war and the reason for his death.

Thanks to a journal that Chris left, Anja Kofmel begins to imagine the last few months of her cousin’s life. What begins with curiosity over the motivations of a 27-year-old Swiss young man to become part of a group of armed mercenaries (PIV), many miles away from his home, becomes a personal and accurate research which brings together witnesses such as the members of his family, his former journalism colleagues, PIV mercenaries and even the former terrorist “Carlos El Chacal.” The image that little by little is created in Anja Kofmel’s mind about the last months of Chris’s life becomes a very personal animated world that recreates the story of an announced death.

Film to be shown in original version with Catalan and Spanish subtitles.

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