Andermatt

An Egyptian billionaire businessman wakes the mountain village Andermatt from its sleeping beauty slumber. The projected luxury resort for the international jet set seems a way out of the rising depopulation and makes the locals hope for investment and better times...

Over six years the film accompanies opponents and supporters from the village, executive architects, calculating investors, rebellious farmers and optimistic young restaurateurs. The choice of Bieri's images and protagonists proves a fine sense for ambivalence. A personal, emotional caleidoscope of alpine transformation processes.