21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema International Perspective
WALK THE WALK

France / Switzerland   

Walk the WalkIn the south of France, father, mother, and daughter form a quiet, apparently happy family. He is a coach for long distance runners. She is a biologist. The girl finishes high school at the age of 19. They live a normal routine: work, schools, meeting friends.

All changes when Raye decides to leave home to see the world. She hits the road and travels first through the north of France, then over Germany and Poland. She wishes to find balance, to come to ideas of her own in respect to life. The example of the daughter is soon followed by the father. He abandons all, not knowing exactly where he is going. He boards a ship heading east. He disembarks in Odessa, in Russia and begins walking up-country in East Europe, with no destination.
 

     Director

DIRECTOR: Robert Kramer
SCREENPLAY: Robert Kramer
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Richard Copans, Katell Djian, Blaise Bauquis
MUSIC: Barre Phillips
CAST: Laure Duthilleul, Jacques Martial, Betsabée Haas, Eliane Boisgard
PRODUCER: Ruth Waldburger, Pierre-Alain Schatzmann
FESTIVALS: Berlim
PRODUCTION: Avventura Films, Vega Films, Television Suisse
WORLD SALES: Vega Film AG, Sophienstr. 2, Postfach, 8030 Zurique Tel: 00 41 1 252-6000 Fax: 00 41 1 252-6635
ORIGINAL TITLE: Walk the Walk
   Col. , 115min,  1995

Robert Kramer was born in New York in 1939. In 1969, he started The Newsreel, an organization for directors of independent films that produced approximately fifty films within a period of four years. Among others, he directed, Faln (1965), Scenes from the Portuguese Class Struggle (1977), La Peur (1983), Diesel (1985), Route One (1989) and Starting Point (1994). Today he lives in France.