Michel Soutter

Michel Soutter was born on 2 June 1932 in Geneva. He left the Collège Calvin before finishing his studies, wrote poems, sang in cabarets and worked as a painter, in Geneva and in Paris. His meeting with Alain Tanner, in 1960, led him to television and cinema: he joined Télévision suisse romande as an assistant to Jean-Jacques Lagrange and Claude Goretta, and became a director there in 1964. He was part of the Groupe 5, founded in 1968 with Tanner, Goretta, Lagrange and Jean-Louis Roy. He died in Geneva on 9 September 1991, at the age of fifty-nine.

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• Feature filmThe SurveyorsLes ArpenteursMichel Soutter · 1972Cinema