Enemies in Love

Section: Best Of
Enemies in Love / Verliebte Feinde
Switzerland
Director: Werner Schweizer
2012 / 112 min. / German version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Mona Petri, Fabian Krüger, Steven Buehler

Iris and Peter von Roten are perhaps the most famous, provocative and beautiful couple in recent Swiss history. Iris, a lawyer and feminist from Basel, caused an uproar in 1958 because of her book, Women in the Playpen. In the book, she called for economic, political and sexual equality between men and women, and was fully supported in this by her husband. They applied these convictions in their marital relationship which also included the principles of free love, and this in particular generated resistance from a bigoted society. The mixture of feature film, documentary and archival footage presents a love story comparable to that of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Contact: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, AG, Molkenstrasse 21, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland, T.: +41 44 4563 020, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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