Charles, Dead or Alive
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| Directed by | Alain Tanner |
| Starring |
François Simon Marcel Robert Marie-Claire Dufour |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
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93 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $785.000 |
Charles, Dead or Alive (French: Charles mort ou vif) is a 1970 Swiss drama film directed by Alain Tanner.
Produced in reaction to the Protests of 1968, it describes the mid-life crisis of a businessman who decides to drop out of mainstream capitalist life and takes up with couple living a marginal existence on the fringe of society. Meanwhile his daughter has been caught up in a wave of student protest. According to Alison Smith, the Swiss director Tanner translated the May 1968 events in France to Switzerland, hoping for a similar upheaval in his own country, and in the film creating an imaginary student revolt in a society that in reality did not experience the turmoil or revolutionary possibility facing France in May 1968.
1969 Locarno International Film Festival
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