Claude Goretta

Sartre, Years of Passion (2006)

Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women. ...

La Fuite de monsieur Monde (2004)

Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon (2001)

In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front. ...

Le Dernier Été (1997)

The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime. ...

Goupi-Mains rouges (1993)

The Shadow (1992)

The adventures of Guillaume, a Swiss citizen, honest and cultured, a good husband and father, whose uneventful life suddenly gets out of hand. ...

If the Sun Never Returns (1987)

In a remote Swiss mountain village, the self-proclaimed prophet and sorcerer Anzevui foretells that the sun will never return, plunging the community into eternal winter. As fear and panic spread among the villagers, most succumb to despair. However, a you ...

Orfeo (1985)

Claude Goretta brings to life the age-old tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in a fresh adaptation of Monteverdi's Orfeo. Monteverdi's fabled opera Orfeo was long described as the first opera to have been written. Although modern scholarship has proven this to ...

Orfeo (1985)

Claude Goretta brings to life the age-old tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in a fresh adaptation of Monteverdi's Orfeo. ...

The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)

A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During this time, an Italian immigrant worker is killed in a road crash and the reporter becomes involved in uncov ...

La provinciale (1981)

When Christine, young and out of work, arrives in Paris without money, a job or support, vulnerable and ignorant of the rules of the game, she seems to be an easy victim. But she is determined not to let herself be destroyed. ...

The Roads of Exile (1978)

French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier). ...

The Lacemaker (1977)

Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks i ...

The genetic epistemology of Jean Piaget (1977)

A self-potrait of the influent Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. ...

The Wonderful Crook (1975)

A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims. ...

The Invitation (1973)

Rémi, a confirmed bachelor and model bureaucrat, invites his colleagues and superiors to a magnificent house to celebrate an inheritance. Under the influence of drink, they drop all pretence and reveal their true selves. But what will remain of this brief ...

The Bikers (1972)

A documentary about the Swiss motorcyclist culture in the early 1970s. ...

The Salamander (1971)

Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her. ...

The Wedding Day (1971)

A young man from the city goes on a picnic to the country with his family. They come upon a wedding party, and the young man falls in love with the bride. The girl is getting married for a number of reasons, but not for love. ...

The Madman (1971)

George is a middle-aged man who lives with his disabled wife. He faces dire financial straits after an investment firm wipes out his life savings and forces him into early retirement. Consequently, he becomes increasingly disillusioned and desperate, which ...

Jean-Luc Persécuté (1966)

Jean-Luc, mountain farmer, married Christine. She accepted this marriage because the man she loved, Augustin, left. Jean-Luc knows this but he hopes that the birth of a child will allow them to live together possible. Unfortunately, daily life between work ...

Nice Time (1957)

A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by. ...

Bon vent Claude Goretta (2011)

Claude Goretta directed "L'invitation" in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a "travelling companion", to adapt Serge Daney's expression. He feels it is definitive proof that a Swiss can be deeply Chekhovian. The young filmmaker goe ...