{"product_id":"reisender-krieger","title":"Reisender Krieger","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the search for the one true Swiss road movie, Christian Schocher’s \u003cem\u003eReisender Krieger\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Traveling Warrior\u003c\/em\u003e) of 1981 is the only choice. Everything about it was visionary: the direction, the camera work, the use of amateur actors, and the screenplay based on Homer’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. A sales representative named Krieger, working for a cosmetics brand, sets off in his Citroën CX car on an odyssey across 1970s Switzerland - a country in a state of upheaval and decline. The camera revels in parking lots, construction cranes and vast concrete structures, farms, hair salons, discotheques, motorway service plazas, cheap hotel rooms, and dim bars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book transfers \u003cem\u003eReisender Krieger\u003c\/em\u003e, shot in 16 mm-format, into a photo book featuring some 180 carefully scanned still frames. A conversation with director Christian Schocher and cameraman Clemens Klopfenstein, as well as an essay by Swiss writer Zora del Buono, round off this volume, making it a unique document of a Switzerland long gone that still captivates us today, very much in the spirit of Swiss-born Robert Frank’s famous \u003cem\u003eThe American\u003c\/em\u003es.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText in English and German.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55503577809240,"sku":"9783039422883","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783039422883.jpg?v=1781012765","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reisender-krieger","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}