FILM CHÂTEL-ST-DENIS / ZURICH
The Platzspitz in Zurich, a famous drug scene closed in 1992, is reborn in the last film by Châtelois Pierre Monnard Les enfants du Platzspitz.
Released on Wednesday in French-speaking Switzerland, the feature film will be screened in the dark room of the director’s childhood: the Sirius.
During his adolescence in Châtel-St-Denis, Pierre Monnard was marked by this comrade, fallen into drugs and who, one day, did not return from Platzspitz.
If Pierre Monnard has lived in Zurich since 2002, he has not forgotten the setting of his childhood in Châtel-St-Denis, where his parents still live. When it comes to posing for the magazine of a large distributor, he naturally chooses the Sirius cinema. Moreover, this place is no stranger to the vocation of the director of 44 years …
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