| Hors Saison | |
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| Directed by | Daniel Schmid |
| Produced by | Marcel Hoehn Christoph Holch Luciano Gloor Martine Marignac |
| Written by | Daniel Schmid Martin Suter |
| Starring | Sami Frey Maria Maddalena Fellini Geraldine Chaplin Marisa Paredes Ingrid Caven |
| Music by | Peer Raben |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
| Editing by | Daniela Roderer |
| Release date(s) | February 10, 1993 (France) |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France Switzerland Germany |
| Language | French |
Hors Saison is a 1992 comedy film by Daniel Schmid, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Martin Suter. The film is semi-autobiographical for Schmid, who reimagines the hotel he grew up in in the Swiss Alps. The French-Swiss-German co-production premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 1992, followed by a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September, 1992. The film was the Swiss submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Adult narrator, (Sami Frey) recalls his myserious childhood at a mountainside hotel which he shared with his mother, grandmother and the hotel's guests. The hotel is host to a series of interesting guests, from the actress, Sarah Bernhard (Paredes), an anarchist assasin (Chaplin), torch singers and seductive women.[1]
The film was well-received by Variety, "Hors Saison is an unabashed cinematic circus populated by a Fellini-like cast of caricatures. It is irony and good humour make it high-class, entertainment for family audiences as well as the director's art house fans."[1] David Robinson wrote in The Times that the film offers "rich nostalgia" and that it "delights in the colourful ghosts of the place [hotel]".[2]