The Pledge
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141000435 (0141000430)
ASIN: 141000430
Publish date: April 10th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
In terra elvetica, precisa, pulita e razionale, certezza non v’è, e la ragione barcolla. Una beffa tremenda per la perfettissima Svizzera. Sembra il classico giallo: scoperto un cadavere, inizia l’indagine e si trova il colpevole. Dürrenmatt introduce però elementi che scompongono il disegno: caos...
Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote Das Versprechen (published in English as The Pledge) after he was asked to write a film script for a project that would end up being one of the seminal moments of German/Swiss film making: Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). The 1958 version...
Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote Das Versprechen (published in English as The Pledge) after he was asked to write a film script for a project that would end up being one of the seminal moments of German/Swiss film making: Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). The 1958 version...
I think it seemed unrealistic because it was a Hollywood-style morality tale, except reversed, from a Swiss-German perspective, so that getting inefficiently, emotionally involved beyond the bare details of the case is considered excessive and even blinding.
Film only winter 2012/2013 translation pub 1958 switzerland mystery short story Adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson. Okay - I was well fed up that the film was set in US as most of the initial attraction lay in anticipation of the Swiss coun...
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