Zones

Story

Synopsis

Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park. The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks. Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years, are childless, and live on the 16th floor of a new building. Thanks to their various crises, they have got to know each other somewhat better, but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity. On Friday, August 12th 1977, a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country. The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast. The authorities order a ban on information, but those concerned break their imposed silence. On Sunday evening, it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of "dress rehearsal" for a real emergency. Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention - but now they are conscious of the fact.

Director

Fredi M. Murer

Writers

Fredi M. Murer

Language

German

Country

Switzerland, Germany

Release date

7 August 1979

Ensemble

Cast

• Giovanni Früh

  Alfred

• Olga Piazza

  Julia

• Jürgen Brügger

  Entführer / Stimme

• Janet Haufler

  Frau Thérèse

• 

  Walo Lüönd

  Nachtwächter

• George Reinhart

  Entführer

• Ernst Kühni

  Entführer

• Peter Siegenthaler

  Prediger

• Michael Maassen

  Forscher

• 

  Mathias Gnädinger

  Taxifahrer