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Address Wały gen. Sikorskiego 13, Toruń
Origin Germany, Switzerland
Original name Stürm: Bis wir tot sind oder frei
Movie genre Drama
Entry 12–14 PLN
Venue's website en.csw.torun.pl
Length 180 min
Director Oliver Rihs
Links IMDB
Release 2020

Performing: Marie Leuenberger, Joel Basman, Jella Haase

Walter Stürm, one of the protagonists of Oliver Rihs's Swiss-German film, was a colourful figure in the criminal world, who served numerous sentences in prisons of Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain. Although he came from a wealthy industrialist family, his profession was all kinds of criminal activities: from selling stolen cars, to burglary and robbery, to bank heists. He was non-violent in his actions, and his spectacular escapes from prison built the legend of a folk hero who, like the heroes of film, played on the noses of disliked policemen and in his own way opposed the unjust, patriarchal system. The 1980s, when the film is set, were a time of social unrest and struggle for women's rights in Switzerland. One of the activists is lawyer Barbara Hug, who not only fights for the release of the women activists arrested during the protests, but also uses the courtroom as a political tribune to present her freedom-oriented views. Walter Stürm, the "king of escapes", whose defence she takes on when he announces a hunger strike in protest against solitary confinement, becomes a symbol of resistance for her. His popularity may help her achieve the political goals she herself is fighting for.

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