Directed by:
Franz SchnyderScreenplay:
Franz SchnyderCinematography:
Konstantin Irmen-TschetComposer:
Robert BlumCast:
Paulette Dubost, Emil Hegetschweiler, Max Haufler, Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Reincke, Alfred Rasser, Margrit Rainer, Fred Tanner, Therese Giehse, Hans Trommer, Willy Ackermann, Friedrich Braun (more)Plots(1)
When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux nations, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? The answer is devastating. Franz Schnyder was one of the most enigmatic masters of Swiss film. On the one hand, he became an epitome of conventional quality cinema due to his successful adaptations of local literary classics – on the other hand, certain higher-ups viewed him as something akin to an enemy of the state, partly due to this film that dared to show the nation as well-willing yet morally weak and not able to withstand a totalitarian threat. And while Der 10. Mai might look at the past, there were also current affairs. The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 got Schnyder thinking about his fatherland: a country whose official anti-Communism had made it too authoritarian for liberal bourgeois comfort. A masterpiece of political cinema long available only in a revised edit, finally restored to its original glory. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
Paulette Dubost
France
Best movies:
Milou in May (1990)
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
Way of Youth (1959)
Emil Hegetschweiler
Switzerland
Best movies:
Max Haufler
Switzerland
Best movies:
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
Freud (1962)
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
Heinrich Gretler
Switzerland
Best movies:
M (1931)
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Heinz Reincke
German Empire
Best movies:
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
The Longest Day (1962)
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957)
Alfred Rasser
Switzerland
Margrit Rainer
Switzerland
Fred Tanner
Switzerland
Therese Giehse
German Empire
Best movies:
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Girls in Uniform (1958)
Anna Karenina (1948)
Hans Trommer
Switzerland
Friedrich Braun
Switzerland
Valerie Steinmann
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Swissmakers (1978)
Armin Schweizer
Switzerland
Best movies:
Flitterwochen (1936)
The Mountain Calls (1938)
Der große König (1942)
Walter Roderer
Switzerland
Linda Geiser
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Pawnbroker (1964)
Oskar Hoby
Switzerland
Best movies:
Theo gegen den Rest der Welt (1980)