Country: Switzerland
Year: 1986
Duration: 52'
Herman Hesse died on August 9, 1962 in Montagnola, where he lived since May 1919. The Swiss documentary maker Werner Weick, who will receive the award Gli occhiali di Gandhi in person during the Festival, pays tribute to this great author in Herman Hesse’s Long Summer. The movie depicts his retirement spent in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, through his autobiographic pages, archive material, and the words of his children, his editor, and his doctor.
Biography
film director
Werner Weick
Werner Weick is a journalist, a director, and a producer for Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI). He made hundreds of historical and cultural documentaries in various parts of the world. In recent years he made fifty documentaries, part of which in collaboration with Andrea Andriotto, constituting the series Il Filo d’oro: portraits of wise men, spiritual guides, and philosophers, shot around the world and produced for RSI.
FILMOGRAFIA
La lunga estate di Hermann Hesse (mm, tv, doc., 1986), Tramonto a Oriente (mm, tv, doc., 1992), Il filo d’oro (tv, Alì Akbar Khan, mm, 1996; Alain Daniélou. La voce degli dei, 2000; Alice Boner. La visione interiore, 2000; Kapyla Vatssyayan. Il paradosso dell’arte, 2000; Bambine da buttare, 2001; La dea ferita - La memoria dell’India, 2001; La dea ferita - Maneka Gandhi, 2001; La dea ferita - Vandana Shiva, 2001; Filo d’ombra. Cercatori d’ombra, mm, 2004; Filo d’ombra. Coi nostri più perfidi auguri!, mm, 2004; Le fonti dissepolte - Enigma Gesù, 2005; Le fonti dissepolte - Gesù e la donna, mm, 2005; L’ombra di Dio - Ammazzateli tutti, Dio riconoscerà i suoi, mm, 2006; L’ombra di Dio - La grande invenzione, mm, 2006; La croce e il mandala - Armenia, ferita aperta, 2007; La croce e il mandala - Prigionieri di Pechino e Shangri-La, mm, 2007), Hesse, il lago, l’albero e la via (cm, tv, doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“The film retraces Hesse’s most prolific years as a writer, which he spent in his retreat in Montagnola, through a first person narrator extrapolated from his books. Just like in Klingsor’s Last Summer, after wandering through villages and chestnut groves in those long torrid days, the author tries to preserve something of that enchantment by painting watercolors; writing in the hot summer nights the pages that will make him famous around the world. […] Herman Hesse died fifty years ago; he always tried to form consciences capable of opposing themselves to collective pressure, individuals immune to empty statements and mass hypnosis.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Werner Weick
fotografia/cinematography Luciano Paltenghi, Angelo D’Auria
montaggio/film editing Gabi Weick
suono/sound Luca Maccanetti
interpreti/cast Bruno Hesse, Heiner Hesse, Siegfried Unseld, Rodolfo Molo produzione/production RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera
fotografia/cinematography Luciano Paltenghi, Angelo D’Auria
montaggio/film editing Gabi Weick
suono/sound Luca Maccanetti
interpreti/cast Bruno Hesse, Heiner Hesse, Siegfried Unseld, Rodolfo Molo produzione/production RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera
