Suzanne Beyeler

Suzanne Beyeler

1948-01-01
64 (2012-05-01)
Zürich, Switzerland

Suzanne Beyeler made a name for herself in Zurich and Berlin as a dedicated, courageous and emancipated filmmaker. Many years before the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters she pointed out the dangers of the so-called "peaceful use of nuclear energy" with her documentary "Radiant Future".

Zürich, Switzerland

Suzanne Beyeler made a name for herself in Zurich and Berlin as a dedicated, courageous and emancipated filmmaker. Many years before the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters she pointed out the dangers of the so-called "peaceful use of nuclear energy" with her documentary "Radiant Future".

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Umwege 1968

Semi-autobiographical short by Susanne Beyeler.
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Allein machen sie dich ein 1974

West Berlin, December 1971: Several hundred trainees, students, young workers and young people who had run away from institutions occupied the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus, a building of the empty Bethanien Hospital in Kreuzberg. They want to shape their living and leisure situation themselves. The film was made by a film collective together with the young people and shows what has happened in the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus since the occupation.