DOCUMENTARY

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2019 I HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | english I 85 min

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'Who said that old age has to be boring? Golden Age opens the doors to the Palace, a retirement home of the kind that you have never seen before, in Miami. Gildings, ostentatious chandeliers, marble floors; like a cross between a luxury hotel and an Americanised copy of Versailles, the place is presented by its developers as the most beautiful retirement home in the Unites States. The residents here are pampered by an army of employees devoted to their every whim, in a permanent party atmosphere. This abundance of luxury, extravagance and entertainment is not, nonetheless, enough to remove the anxieties of those who live there. Nor can it hide the intentions of the investors for whom old age is, above all, a source of income and a growing market. Golden Age takes us on a journey into this baroque universe which tries to suppress the fear of death through dollars, questioning, in a dizzying visual whirlwind, our relationship to old age in its most universal aspect.'
CELINE GUENOT, VISIONS DU REEL

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DIRECTOR Beat Oswald

CINEMATOGRAPHER Samuel Weniger

EDITIOR Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Marcel Vaid

PRODUCTION Conobs GmbH, wenigervideo, Urs Augstburger (SRF)

WORLD SALES First Hand Films

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FESTIVALS

Miami International Filmfestival

Visions du Réel 2019 - Nominated for the Best Documentary National

55. Solothurner Filmtage

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2019

Zuger Filmtage 2019, Eröffnungsfilm

Filmtage Friedrichshafen 2020

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CINEMA RELEASE SCHWEIZ 12.09.2019

Lunchkino Arthouse LeParis, Zürich

Lunchkino Kino Camera, Basel

Odeon, Brugg

Kino Apollo, Chur

Cinema Luna, Frauenfeld

Kino Rosental, Heiden

Stattkino, Luzern

Lichtspiele, Olten

Kinok, St. Gallen

Cameo, Winterthur

Cinélux, Genève

Cinéma ABC, La Chaux-de-Fonds

Cinéma Royal, Saint Croix

Zinema, Lausanne

Cinéma Minimum, Neuchatel

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