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Producer - Country
Switzerland
Greutert Valentin
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles was a man of immense charisma, influence and talent. His most famous novel «The Sheltering Sky» is considered a masterpiece. But at the height of his career he turned his back on Western society and escaped with his wife to Tangier, Morocco. But instead of being forgotten, something strange happened. Everyone followed. First the neo-lost generation, then the beats, the hippies and finally the Jet-Set. Paul Bowles opened up Morocco and everybody came to get a taste. Frustrated by all this attention Paul decided to escape again, but this time he almost lost his identity. The director Daniel Young traveled to Tangier in 1998 to film an interview with Bowles. When Bowles died shortly after, he knew he had to complete the film. Over the course of twelve years, Young has tracked down many of Paul’s illustrious companions and friends (Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Waters etc.) and has interwoven a patchwork of materials, resulting in a fresh and personal portrait of this grand writer and composer.
Paul Bowles was a man of immense charisma, influence and talent. His most famous novel «The Sheltering Sky» is considered a masterpiece. But at the height of his career he turned his back on Western society and escaped with his wife to Tangier, Morocco. But instead of being forgotten, something strange happened. Everyone followed. First the neo-lost generation, then the beats, the hippies and finally the Jet-Set. Paul Bowles opened up Morocco and everybody came to get a taste. Frustrated by all this attention Paul decided to escape again, but this time he almost lost his identity. The director Daniel Young traveled to Tangier in 1998 to film an interview with Bowles. When Bowles died shortly after, he knew he had to complete the film. Over the course of twelve years, Young has tracked down many of Paul’s illustrious companions and friends (Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Waters etc.) and has interwoven a patchwork of materials, resulting in a fresh and personal portrait of this grand writer and composer.
Valentin Greutert was born in 1974 in Basel, Switzerland. After High School he began his studies in economics at the University of Basel in 1994 and continued them from 1997 at the University of Berne. He graduated in March 2000 with a paper on «Public Funding of Culture from an Economic Perspective». Already during his studies he was interested in film production and made his first production experiences at Condor Film and Fama Film. With the university degree in the pocket he started working as a production assistant for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, where he handled the production of numerous documentary and feature films. Together with the producer Simon Hesse, he founded HesseGreutert Film in March 2004.The main purpose of this company is the production of documentary and feature films.
HesseGreutert Film AG
Badenerstrasse 129
CH-8004 Zurich
Badenerstrasse 129
CH-8004 Zurich