The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy

Documentary / Experimental
Switzerland, 2009, 87 min

Directed by:

Peter Liechti

Based on:

Masahiko Shimada (book)

Screenplay:

Peter Liechti

Composer:

Norbert Möslang

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A suggestive and original reconstruction of the last days of a mysterious man, whose body was discovered mummified in the midst of a forest. Who was this man? Why did he kill himself in one of the slowest ways possible – by starvation? This film by the Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti was inspired by a true event and a novella by Masahiko Shimada. (4 živly)

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