No Man's Land

No Man's Land (1985)

Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.

Date of release
1985-08-28
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama
Director
Alain Tanner

Casting

Interesting facts

No Man's Land is a 1985 drama film directed and written by Alain Tanner, about a group of young people on the French-Swiss border. The film was shown in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 1985.

Production

Tanner said the film was about characters trying to find their place in a society in crisis, describing it as a film about the dissolution of contemporary life and its structures.

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