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Director
  
Marcel Gisler

Music director
  
Barduin

Duration
  

Language
  
Swiss German English

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary, Biography

Screenplay
  
Marcel Gisler

Country
  
Switzerland

Electroboy (film) movie poster

Release date
  
August 9, 2014 (2014-08-09) (Locarno Film Festival)

Writer
  
Marcel Gisler, Marcel Gisler

Cast
  
Florian Burkhardt, Urs Althaus, Gregory David Mayo

Similar movies
  
The Circle (2014), ThuleTuvalu (2014), Marcel Gisler directed Electroboy and Rosie, Marcel Gisler directed Electroboy and Fogi Is a Bastard, Iraqi Odyssey (2014)

Electroboy is a 2014 Swiss documentary film directed by Marcel Gisler about the life of Florian Burkhardt, alias Electroboy, model, snowboard pioneer, advertiser, author, party organizer and composer during the 1990s, who now suffers from a generalized anxiety.

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Production

The documentary was shot in Switzerland, Germany, India and the United States between April and July 2013. It premiered at Locarno International Film Festival. It was released in Swiss cinemas in November 2014 and in German and Austrian cinemas in November 2015.

Reception

The Hollywood Reporter researcher Boyd van Hoeij says about the film: "A fascinating look at a complex human being’s many up and downs" and "Instead of becoming a long list of occurrences, accomplishments, reinventions and psychological challenges and transformations, the film naturally brings all these elements together to paint a picture of an extremely complex human being [...] who had to try and find out the hard way who he was and what he wanted out of life." Madeleine Hirsiger from Locarno International Film Festival says about the film: "...excellently and densely edited portrait leads the spectator into an anxiety from which there is no escape."

Awards

  • Swiss Film Award 2015: Best Documentary and Best Editing
  • Zurich Film Prize 2014
  • International Documentary Film Festival Munich 2015: Audience Award
  • Nomination for the Swiss Film Award 2015: Best Score
  • Selection for the European Film Award 2015: Best Documentary
  • References

    Electroboy (film) Wikipedia
    Electroboy (film) IMDb Electroboy (film) themoviedb.org