08/06/2005

Last year, Christoph Schaub's Sternenberg reached the top of the national box-office with around 122 000 admissions. And so his new project, Jeune Homme, which is currently being shot, is awaited in anticipation by the Swiss public. The film, produced by Marcel Hoehn (T&C Film, Zurich) and shot both in the German and Romand territories of Switzerland, attempts to link two linguistic areas between which the cultural gap tends to grow wider and wider. By following a German protagonist hired to work for a family in Geneva, Christoph Schaub tackles the issue of the mutual prejudices of the German-speaking and the French-speaking communities, as well as the different roles assigned to men and women by society. Christoph Schaub, born in 1958 in Zurich, has directed many documentaries and a few fiction films, such as Stille Liebe (2001), Am Ende der Nacht (1992), presented together at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, and Dreissig Jahre (1989). Jeune Homme, starring Matthias Schoch, Alexandra Vandernoot, Didier Flamand, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, and Mona Petri, will be released in 2006.

(Translated from French)