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The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009)
Directed by Peter Liechti
Documentary · 1h 27m
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself.
Cast
Peter Mettler
Alexander Tschernek
Crew
- Director
- Peter Liechti
- Screenplay
- Peter Liechti
- Director of Photography
- Matthias Kälin, Peter Liechti, Peter Guyer
- Original Music Composer
- Norbert Möslang, Christoph Homberger
- Editor
- Tania Stöcklin
- Producer
- Peter Liechti
Details
- Original title
- Das Summen der Insekten
- Release date
- 2009-01-21
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Production
- Peter Liechti Filmproduktion, SRF