Claude Goretta

Claude Goretta was born on 23 June 1929 in Petit-Saconnex, in Geneva. A law student at the university, he founded a film club there, of which Alain Tanner was one of the organisers, then joined Tanner in London, where both worked at the British Film Institute and together made a first short film in 1957. Back in Geneva in 1958, he made documentaries and reports for Télévision suisse romande, and in 1968 founded, with Tanner, Michel Soutter, Jean-Louis Roy and Jean-Jacques Lagrange, the Groupe 5. He died in Geneva on 20 February 2019.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe LacemakerLa DentellièreClaude Goretta · 1977Cinema