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* Geneva, Zwitserland 6.12.1929

Education:     Calvin College (economics)

Alain Tanner, with his portraits of life among Geneva's marginal and harmless rebels, can easily be considered the director who introduced American audiences to the fact that not only bankers and diplomats live in Geneva. Influenced by his involvement with the British Free Cinema movement in London in the early 1960s and with the French New Wave during his Paris years, Tanner's films, often coscripted with the English art critic John Berger, combine a cinéma vérité documentary style and with fable-like story telling. A gentle, idiosyncratic anarchy, tinged with irony, suffuses both LA SALAMANDRE (1971) and JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (1976). His later films, however, have been darker, and in the case of NO MAN'S LAND, the whimsical optimism of the late 1970s has been totally reversed.

1971   LA SALAMANDRE                                  
           director, screenwriter
1972   RETURN FROM AFRICA/LE RETOUR D'AFRIQUE             producer, director, screenwriter
1974   THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD/LE MILIEU DU MONDE    director, screenwriter, adaptation, dialogue
1976   JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 / JONAS QUI AURA 25 ANS EN L'AN 2000                                                                                                                                               director, adaptation, dialogue
1978   MESSIDOR                                                                  director, screenwriter
1981   LES ANNÉES LUMIÈRES                                               director, screenwriter
1981   LIGHT YEARS AWAY                                                     director, screenwriter
1983   IN THE WHITE CITY/DANS LA VILLE BLANCHE             director, sound
1985   NO MAN'S LAND                                                           producer, director, screenwriter
1986   FRANÇOIS SIMON—LA PRESENCE                               performer
1987   LA VALLÉE FANTÔME                                                   executive producer, director, screenwriter
1987   UNE FLAMME DANS MON COEUR                                 director, screenwriter
1989   LA FEMME DE ROSE HILL                                             producer, director, screenwriter
1990   LES ANGES                                                                  associate producer
1992   THE MAN WHO LOST HIS SHADOW/L'HOMME QUI A PERDU SON OMBRE      producer, director, screenplay
1993   LE JOURNAL DE LADY M/THE DIARY OF LADY M             producer, director
1997   GENERATION X