Daniel Schmid

Daniel Schmid (1941–2006, Flims-Waldhaus, Switzerland) was a theatre and film director with a distinctive imagination and an unusual view of reality. He was also active as a screenwriter and occasional actor, (e.g. in the films of his friend Rainer Werner Fassbinder). Schmid made both documentaries and feature films. His Hécate (1982), a passionate love drama involving the conflict between European and African cultures, was shown at the Berlinale, and his satire of Swiss society Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz (1999) was screened at Cannes. His features include Schatten der Engel (1976) and the autobiographical Zwischensaison (1992), and he also made the documentaries Mirage de la vie (1983), Les amateurs (1991) and Das geschriebene Gesicht (1995), and the docudrama Notre Dame de la Croisette (1981). Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg filmed a biography of Schmid, Le chat qui pense, in 2010.

50. MFF Karlovy Vary