Markus Imhoof


Markus Imhoof is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director.
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Biography

He began his career as a documentary maker, focusing on controversial issues. His 1968 film Rondo was a critical look at the prison system in Switzerland. The film was banned until 1975. His next picture, Ormenis 199+69 also met with censorship, as it examined the role and treatment of horses in the cavalry and suggested that the unit ought to be disbanded. Imhoof was forced to make some edits before the film could be screened in public, removing scenes that military veterans found objectionable. Only in 2002 did the film become available in uncensored form. Volksmund - oder man ist was man isst was a documentary critical of consumption in society.
Later in his career, Imhoof began directing regular narrative films as well. His film Das Boot ist voll received international acclaim for showing the downside of Switzerland's neutral politics during World War II. The film depicted a group of Jewish refugees in 1942 being forced to return to Nazi Germany on order of the Swiss government and thus meeting their deaths in the concentration camps. At the time it was the first Swiss film to deal with this controversial topic. Imhoof's next film, Die Reise examined Baader-Meinhof's terrorism. Der Berg was a psychological study of three people stranded on top of a mountain with only enough food for two of them to survive. Les Raisons du coeur is also a psychological study, this time depicting a young woman promised in marriage who switches places with a woman bound for India.

Theatre

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny The Servant The Longing of the Masks Tales from the Vienna Woods Lulu Hamlet Falstaff The Mastersingers of Nuremberg The Seagull Così fan tutte Lucia di Lammermoor Nathan the Wise The Abduction from the Seraglio

Film

As writer/directorWoe if We Let Go Princess Tuamasi Happy Birthday Rondo (1968 film) Ormenis 199+69 Swiss Painters and Sculptors You Are What You Eat Escape Risk ' Pipe Polishers The Boat Is Full Via Scarlatti 20 The Journey Little Illusions
As co-authorThe Mountain

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for More than Honey 2012/13

Switzerland

Germany

Austria

United States

France

  • Festival Pariscience – International Festival of Scientific Film, Buffon Prize
  • Bourges International Ecological Film Festival, Best Documentary

Italy

Great Britain

  • UK Green Film Festival, Audience Award

Romania

  • Pelicam International Film Festival, Audience Award

Ukraine

  • Apimondia - International Apicultural Congress, Golden Medal World Beekeeping Awards

Brazil

  • Filmambiente International Environmental Film Festival, Special Mention