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Prof. Aebi presents: an evening with Stefan Haupt @ Caltech

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Prof. Dr. Andreas Aebi presents:

HOW ABOUT LOVE” (Switzerland – 2010)

with film director Stefan Haupt


Wednesday – Feb. 16, 7:30pm
Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech Pasadena

The film is in Swiss German, Thai, Burmese, –  English subtitles

SUMMARY: Fritz Reinhart is a successful surgeon in Zurich suddenly faced with the suffering in a refugee camp on the Burmese border during his vacation in Thailand. Being a doctor, he is confronted with the issue of providing immediate emergency aid. He has no idea that this is going to last a whole year and that as a “helper” he will be caught in a turmoil of emotions that challenge his existence as a family man, even his entire life, abruptly and radically.

With: Adrian Furrer, Andrea Pfaehler and Martin Hug,  (Nominee best supporting actor Solothurn 2011) Jorm Leun Hkam, Arthit Kimakhom

 

Sponsored by the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and presented by Prof. Dr. Aebi (Caltech)

Find out more about Swiss Films: visit http://www.FilmSearch.ch

Written by M:)

February 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm

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