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  • 2024
  • R
  • Sovereign Film Distribution
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Sovereign Film Distribution
  • 1 h 25 m
A Forgotten Man

Summary In the spring of 1945 as Nazi Germany collapses, Swiss ambassador Heinrich Zwygart flees bombed-out Berlin after serving eight years in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a dreadful mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. For Switzerland to end on the winnin...

Written By: Laurent Nègre

  • 2024
  • R
  • Sovereign Film Distribution
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Sovereign Film Distribution
  • 1 h 25 m

A Forgotten Man

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Summary In the spring of 1945 as Nazi Germany collapses, Swiss ambassador Heinrich Zwygart flees bombed-out Berlin after serving eight years in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a dreadful mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. For Switzerland to end on the winnin...

Written By: Laurent Nègre

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75
Apr 11, 2024
The film’s most tremendous success is its willingness to address difficult questions about Switzerland’s past.
By Sumner Forbes FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 11, 2024
A Forgotten Man still makes for a most watchable account of a country that may have “gotten it from both sides” during the war, which acted out of self-preservation and self-interst, but which got an undeserved pass for its selective, opportunistic views of “neutrality.”
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 11, 2024
Nègre is free to fictionalise the story any way he wants. The times, however, arguably call for a more clear-eyed examination of the dangers of turning a blind eye to the less palatable actions of ostensibly friendly nations.
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60
Apr 11, 2024
This is a watchable, if somewhat stagey film, and these jump-scare visions, leaping out of the ambassador’s tormented subconscious, might have worked better in the theatre.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 11, 2024
A handsome period piece, shot in striking black and white, A Forgotten Man tackles an intriguing theme, but it’s a little too airless and inert in approach to bring this murky corner of European history to life.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bord Cadre Films, Sovereign Films (II)
Release Date Apr 12, 2024
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Website https://bordcadrefilms.com/a-forgotten-man-en/
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Awards

Solothurn Film Festival (Solothurner Filmtage)
• 1 Nomination
Swiss Film Prize
• 1 Nomination

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