If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Antonin Schopfer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Antonin Schopfer.
Camille, a young idealistic photojournalist, goes to the Central African Republic to cover the civil war that is brewing up. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.
Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic monastery. While she waits for her fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna finds out she is pregnant. The choice she will have to make and the arrival of the refugees will give rise to concern within the religious community and will challenge their concept of Christian charity.
'Rabbit Girl' is the story of a young bookseller with a double life: she sells books during the day and has a burlesque rabbit show in the evenings. Her love story with the delivery boy is at risk when he suddenly appears at one of her shows.
Canton of Neuchâtel, 1917 to 1933. A young watchmaker falls head over heels with a mysterious young woman. Jean and Anna get married, love each other madly and go through all life experiences together, supported by their happiness and friends at their side. Jean wants to invent a new waterproof watch, and the future looks promising. But Anna suddenly seems to suffer from a strange sickness which gets worse each day. Will Jean's love for her be enough to save her?
Marcel and Mila have recently split up. As every year, they're going to stay with Marcel's mother for Christmas in the south of France, where somehow they'll have to tell her the news.
A Jew Must Die
6.4/10
Release: 15/09/2016
A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by Swiss Nazis.
Antonin pays a visit to his father whom he hasn’t seen for fifteen years. He asks a friend and cameraman to accompany him because he wants to make a documentary of the encounter. Very quickly, everything gets out of control: his film and his relationship with his father, which he had been planning to patch up.
Mateo, a young dancer, returns to his native region of Menton to reconnect with his brother Albert after a long absence. Very quickly, Mateo is confronted with the loneliness of his elder brother who is fighting for the survival of the family candle workshop. Mateo wants to overcome the childhood sufferings, but reconciliation is difficult between misunderstandings and fraternal love.
It's summer and Antonin is on his way to visit the father he has not seen in fifteen years. Accompanied by his friend, a cameraman who will film the reunion, he leaves the city for his childhood home – where fifteen years earlier his father had kicked his mother out of the house.