Film screening: 'The Blocher Experience'

Crisis Mirror is pleased to invite you to the screening of The Blocher Experience, a documentary film by Jean-Stéphane Bron, which tells the story of Switzerland’s most controversial political leader. It also chronicles the face-to-face encounter between a film-maker and a man of power, through a year of exclusive, up-close interviews and access to his private life.

Fall 2011. Christoph Blocher is on the campaign trail, working toward a victory for his rightwing, nationalist SVP party that will ultimately win nearly a third of the votes. His car offers an unrivaled vantage point for the film-maker Jean-Stéphane Bron, enabling him to tell the story from the inside, and in the first person.

On the road, the film unravels the threads of Blocher’s life – his triumphs, his methods, his secrets. How an impoverished pastor’s son became a successful businessman with a colossal fortune, and one of the most powerful men in Switzerland ?

A political parable and reflection on a country, The Blocher Experience traces the portrait of a man who has radically transformed politics in Switzerland. Moreover, the film captures the mood of a period when, all over crisis-stricken Europe, nationalism is on the rise.

Watch the trailer: http://www.blocherfilm.ch/en/the-movie/

Read more: http://www.crisismirror.info/events/film-screening-the-blocher-experience/