War in the Highlands
Synopsis
Winter 1797 - 1798: Napoleonic troops, allied with Swiss revolutionaries, occupy the canton of Vaud and begin preparing for the military conquest of Bern and its vassals. Resistance to the advance of Enlightenment ideas, however, coalesces in the highlands beyond the snow-blocked passes. This clash of philosophies weighs on the romantic fate of David and Julie, who are caught up in the whirlwind of parental conflict, emotional crises, and betrayed friendships, all burdened by civil and religious traditions.
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Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Rezo Productions, Arena Films
- Foreign production companies : Cab Productions, Saga Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Cinexport
- French distribution : Rezo Films
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Jean-Louis Porchet, Gérard Ruey
- Screenwriters : Francis Reusser, Jean-Claude Carrière, Emmanuelle Riedmetten (De)
- Director of Photography : Christophe Beaucarne
- Music Composer : Jean-François Monot
- Assistant directors : George Every, Andréas Meszaros
- Editor : Jacques Witta
- Sound Recordist : François Musy
- Costume designer : Jean-Claude Maret
- Foreign producers : Paul Fonteyn, Hubert Toint
- Associate Producer : Bruno Pesery
- Production Manager : Xavier Grin
- Press Attaché (film) : Sandrine Lamantowicz
- Continuity supervisor : Élodie Van Beuren
- Production Designer : Jean-Claude Maret
- Still Photographer : Jacques Berthet
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland, Belgium)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 05/05/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 93.932
- Visa issue date : 15/04/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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In the post-revolutionary period, people in the Ormont highlands did not take to the new ideas promoted by the likes of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and others. The ancien régime in Bern therefore curried favored with the population by exonerating it from taxes and granting it relative freedom, all the while protecting it from disaster. Little open to change, the people of the Ormonts had long resisted the Protestant reformation; hencefroth they dreaded the revolutionary violence raging in France and therefore took a dim view of the liberal ideas advocated by exiled residents from Vaud.
(Excerpt from press folder)
