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1971 film

The Salamander
Film poster
Directed by	Alain Tanner
Written by	John Berger Alain Tanner
Produced by	Alain Tanner
Starring	Bulle Ogier
Cinematography	Sandro Bernardoni Renato Berta
Edited by	Marc Blavet Brigitte Sousselier
Music by	Patrick Moraz
Release date	27 October 1971 (1971-10-27)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Switzerland
Language	French

The Salamander (French: La Salamandre) is a 1971 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner. The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot

A young woman is accused of having shot her uncle, but she claims he accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun. Two friends are commissioned to write a film script based on this incident. Each of them chooses an approach in accordance with his profession. The journalist interviews the young woman, yet her statements seem to be contradictory. The novelist invents fictitious explanations which seem plausible, but, when he gets to know the woman, she's very different from what he has imagined. In the end, both refrain from working on this film project.

Cast

Bulle Ogier as Rosemonde
Jean-Luc Bideau as Pierre
Jacques Denis as Paul
Véronique Alain as Suzanne
Daniel Stuffel as the boss at the shoe shop
Marblum Jequier as Paul's wife (as Marblum Jéquier)
Marcel Vidal as Rosemonde's uncle
Dominique Catton as Roger
Violette Fleury as the mother of the boss at the shoe shop
Mista Préchac as Rosemonde's mother

References

"La Salamandre". wordpress. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
"The Salamander". unifrance.org. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links

The Salamander at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Alain Tanner
Nice Time (1957) Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) The Salamander (1971) The Middle of the World (1974) Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) Messidor (1979) Light Years Away (1981) In the White City (1983) No Man's Land (1985) The Diary of Lady M (1993) Fourbi (1996)

v t e Swiss submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1960–1980	The Shadows Grow Longer (1961) First Love (1970) The Salamander (1972) The Invitation (1973) The Middle of the World (1974) Assassination in Davos (1975) Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) Les petites fugues (1979) Every Man for Himself (1980)
1981–2000	The Boat Is Full (1981) Yol (1982) In the White City (1983) Dangerous Moves (1984) Alpine Fire (1985) Tanner (1986) If the Sun Never Returns (1987) Lounge Chair (1988) My Dear Subject (1989) Journey of Hope (1990) The Mountain (1991) Off Season (1992) The Diary of Lady M (1993) Three Colours: Red (1994) Adultery: A User's Guide (1995) The Lambs (1996) For Ever Mozart (1997) War in the Highlands (1998) Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland (1999) Gripsholm (2000)
2001–2020	In Praise of Love (2001) A Loving Father (2002) Mein Name ist Bach (2004) One Long Winter Without Fire (2005) Vitus (2006) Late Bloomers (2007) The Friend (2008) Home (2009) The Little Room (2010) Summer Games (2011) Sister (2012) More than Honey (2013) The Circle (2014) Iraqi Odyssey (2015) My Life as a Courgette (2016) The Divine Order (2017) Eldorado (2018) The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2019) My Little Sister (2020)
2021–present	Olga (2021) A Piece of Sky (2022) Thunder (2023) Reinas (2024)

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