Published on January 7, 2025 at 10:47.
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We all spent an evening by a crackling fire in the forest, telling each other scary stories, playing truth/dare, listening to a guitarist dreaming of himself as Dylan or Brassens or even playing trying to convince yourself that toasting marshmallows was a good idea… And often, by the fire, in the soothing calm of the night, tongues loosen. Based on this principle, Geneva directors Laura Cazador and Amanda Cortés decided to bring together Around the firethe literal title of the documentary they co-signed, two generations of activists. On one side Daniel Bloch and Jacques Fasel, members at the end of the 1970s of the Fasel Band, and on the other three young women who will remain masked in order to preserve their anonymity.
The two eldest, from the outset, explained to the trio that at the time they wanted to “promote an active rebellion in French-speaking Switzerland”. Anti-militarist and anti-capitalist, they place their fight in the context of the radicalization of far-left circles in Europe – the Red Army Faction in Germany, the Red Brigades in Italy, Action Directe in France. As the system is unfair, it seemed right to them to rob, to rob. In 1978, during a hold-up in a shopping center in Villars-sur-Glâne, a cash courier was murdered by one of their henchmen. Accomplices of the Swiss state, even the postal workers were enemies for them…
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