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Hazel

Country: Switzerland, Language: French, 9 mins

  • Director: Tamer Ruggli
  • Writer: Tamer Ruggli
  • Producer: Francine Lusser; Gérard Monier

CGiii Comment

An often joyous, yet decidedly dark film.

This could be - quite easily - a feature film...it has everything needed within its short running time!


Watch...

HAZEL - Preview Copy from Tamer Ruggli on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child-psychiatrist with unconventional methods - This is the summary of young Hazel's life, secretly attracted to boys...

Cast & Characters

Manuela Biedermann as Belinda;
Maxime Mori as Hazel;
Judith Niethammer as Ruth;
Jacqueline Ricciardi as Dr. Lipchitz;
Ursula Stampfli as Krankenschwester Ulrike