TUPAMAROS
Germany, Switzerland 1996 – Director: Heidi Specogna, Rainer Hoffmann – Original language: German, Spanish – Subtitles: English – Length: 93 min.
Guerilla, flower grower, member of parliament. The revolutionary Pepe Mujica looks back on Uruguay’s “Movement for National Liberation” together with Compañeras and Compañeros. They recall their time in the underground, torture at the hands of the military dictatorship and the biggest prison break in the world. A story of the eternal struggle for social change. Christian Lösch
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Heidi Specogna
After studying journalism in Zurich, the Swiss filmmaker attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin and founded the production company Specogna Film in 1990. Since 2003 she has been a lecturer for documentary film at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. Her numerous awards include the Grimme Prizes in 2008 and 2018 and the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 2019.
In its Hommage 2022, DOK.fest München is dedicated to the pioneer of Swiss documentary film, who focuses on the global south in a special way, and presents six of her films.
Filmography
CAHIER AFRICAIN, DE/CH 2016, 119 min.
CARTE BLANCHE, DE/CH 2011, 91 min.
DAS KURZE LEBEN DES JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ, DE/CH 2006, 94 min.
DAS SCHIFF DES TORJÄGERS, DE/CH 2010, 94 min.
DECKNAME ROSA, CH/DE 1993, 85 min.
PEPE MUJICA – DER PRÄSIDENT, DE/CH 2014, 96 min.
STAND UP MY BEAUTY, CH/DE 2021, 110 min.
TANIA – LA GUERRILLERA, CH/DE 1991, 90 min.
TUPAMAROS, DE/CH 1997, 93 min.
ZEIT DER ROTEN NELKEN, DE 2004, 98 min.
Homage Heidi Specogna
The view into the foreign life and the curiosity for the other perspective permeate the cinematic work of the award-winning Swiss director Heidi Specogna. In our homage, we present six films from four decades of her artistic work.
Writer: Heidi Specogna. Camera: Rainer Hoffmann. Sound: Ulla Kösterke. Editing: Dörte Völz. Music: Hans Koch. Production: Specogna Filmprod., Biograph Film/TagTraum GmbH Filmprod., ZDF/ARTE. Producer: Heidi Specogna. Co-Producers: Tag/Traum Filmproduktion Köln / Biograph Film Bern. International Sales: Specogna Filmproduktion
