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Filmmaker · Switzerland

Alain Tanner

Died in 2022

Alain Tanner was born on 6 December 1929 in Geneva. A student of economics at the university, he attended the film club that Claude Goretta had just founded there, then left for London, where from 1955 he worked at the British Film Institute and co-signed with Goretta a first short film, in the wake of Free Cinema. Back in Geneva at the end of the fifties, he made some forty films for Télévision suisse romande and in 1968 founded, with four other filmmakers, the Groupe 5. He died in Geneva on 11 September 2022.

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