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Steff Gruber

Steff Gruber was born in 1953 in Zurich, Switzerland. From 1972 to 1979 he attended film lectures and courses at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and F+F Zurich College of Design. In 1976 he studied mass media philosophy at the University of Georgia (USA) where he became the assistant of the Professor and film-maker James Herbert. Since 1978 Gruber works as an independent filmmaker. He has tau…

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Passion DespairPassion Despair · 2011
Passion Despair
2011
MovieDocumentary
The Swiss photographer Daniel Leuenberger lives on the edge of society, working in Moldova with girls between 9 and 14 years old. He has caused much controversy with the photos of his models which he sells via the internet. The film raises questions of how images are used and their effects in a world increasingly dominated by the media. However, it also shows girls' lives in Moldova's neighbour Transnistria, which does not officially exist. Modelling is not just an important additional source of income for the girls, but more importantly provides a change from the dullness of everyday life.
Location AfricaLocation Africa · 1987
Location Africa
7.01987
MovieDocumentary
Making-of documentary that covers "Cobra Verde," Herzog's last film with Kinski before Kinski's death. This is the documentary that registers the behind the scenes moments of "Cobra Verde", the last project that united director Werner Herzog to actor Klaus Kinski. The notorious and infamous relation between the two filled Cinema theatres with masterpieces, but also filled pages of Cinema History with mutual declarations of both love and hate.
Sepa: Our Lord of MiraclesSepa: Our Lord of Miracles · 1986
Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
6.01986
MovieDocumentary
This 1987 documentary is the only window into an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon, which no camera has ever entered and has been rarely written about.
Do it YourselfDo it Yourself · 1982
Do it Yourself
1982
MovieDocumentary
A short film on throw-away culture and TV

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