Yves Yersin

Yves Yersin was born on 4 October 1942 in Lausanne. He studied photography in Vevey from 1959 to 1961, worked in advertising photography, then trained as a camera operator. He first made documentaries and reports, then in 1971 joined other Swiss filmmakers of his generation to produce their films. He returned to documentary, long after his great success in fiction, with a film about a school in the Jura that was acclaimed at Locarno in 2013. He died at home, in Baulmes, on 15 November 2018, aged seventy-six.

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• Feature filmLes Petites FuguesYves Yersin · 1979Cinema