Downtown Switzerland

Zurich in the autumn of 2003: an insidious change of climate, which had more to do with politics than with the weather, made Christian Davi, Stefan Haupt, Kaspar Kasics, and Fredi M. Murer go on a spontaneous trail-hunting tour of their city. Each followed the irregular beat of life in the "Swiss metropolis of culture and economy". They then combined their material to a multi-layered film, intertwining their individual handwritings and their different topics. Four film directors, four cameras, four points of view – in a film drawing an electrifying picture: Zurich as a trading centre of money and mind, where the most diverse ways of living peacefully coexist, interrelate, or brutally clash. The result of an extraordinary cooperation, this film chronicle looks over the shoulder of global players, political refugees, small-scale industrialists, trendsetters, bus drivers, tram drivers, artists, and young politicians of the rightwing Swiss People's Party

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