Operation Libertad - by Nicolas Wadimoff (2012)

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Operation Libertad’s form reflects this ambivalence. It’s a fiction film that looks like a documentary.
Operation Libertad is indeed the film that most shows this tendency. When Jacob Berger and I worked on the script, we played with this ambivalence. Le film was also shot with an energy similar to that of a documentary. You can also see this in the actors’ performances. It’s almost not acting. It’s almost the actors giving the characters bodily form, rather than them playing a role.
This also allows you to distance yourself from the traditional rules for fiction…
In traditional fiction, the bar is always extremely high in terms of screenplay requirements. Yet, there is nothing worse than profiling oneself in a genre and then not being able to subscribe to it, not being able to make your own mark in it. I’m not saying that I made Operation Libertad by default because I would rather have made Usual Suspects. That’s not it. Simply, wanting to make films in Switzerland is already a strange idea, so dreaming of films with great budgets, complex plots, and tons of comedians would only mean one thing: wasting time. ~ Nicolas Wadimoff

En 1978, les GAR - un groupe clandestin de la scène autonome genevoise - braquent une agence zurichoise de la banque SBS/SBG. Par l’entremise d’une camarade chilienne, employée comme femme de ménage au sein de la banque, le groupe apprend qu’un agent de la dictature paraguayenne apportait de l’argent sale à Zurich. Les GAR enlèvent alors l’agent et emportent plusieurs millions de francs. Un étudiant en art filme l’ensemble de l’opération avec une des premières caméras vidéo…

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