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Wikipedia article




'Charles, Dead or Alive' (French: 'Charles mort ou vif') is a 1969 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner.

Plot



Produced in reaction to the Protests of 1968, it describes the mid-life crisis of a businessman who decides to drop out of mainstream capitalist life and takes up with couple living a marginal existence on the fringe of society. Meanwhile his daughter has been caught up in a wave of student protest. According to Alison Smith, the Swiss director Tanner translated the May 1968 events in France to Switzerland, hoping for a similar upheaval in his own country, and in the film creating an imaginary student revolt in a society that in reality did not experience the turmoil or revolutionary possibility facing France in May 1968.

Cast



* Franois Simon

* Marcel Robert

* Marie-Claire Dufour

* Jean-Luc Bideau

Reception



Awards

'1969 Locarno International Film Festival'

*'Won': Golden Leopard

References




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