Jean Ziegler, the optimism of will
2017• Documentary •01h33
Available on DVD
In 1964, Jean Ziegler was asked by Che Guevara to fight the “capitalist Monster”. Former collaborator of Kofi Annan, professor and writer, Ziegler’s books still act as a manifesto to left-wing intelligentsia. At the UN Human Rights Council, he fights against “vulture funds”, a new avatar of the “Monster”. He goes back to Cuba, in his opinion the mother of all anticapitalist forces. The visit becomes a dialogue between reality and symbolism, confronting his thinking with today’s Cuban destiny.
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Casting: Jean Ziegler
Languages: French, German, Spanish, English
Subtitles: French
Release date: 18/04/2018
2017: Swiss Film Price - Best Documentary
« The filmmaker struggles to make this skillful man, in constant representation, drop the mask » - Télérama
« The intuitive camera captures this body and thought in constant move » - Le Nouvel Obs
« It is through the lens of the camera that Ziegler reveals himself, that the image is infinitely multiplied, losing itself in the complexity of a character with a thousand facets. » - Cineuropa
« An exciting glimpse of this colourful character who has lost none of his revolutionary spirit. » - Première
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