

The Sparrow in the Chimney
Der Spatz im Kamin
Overview
Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen’s parents’ house. Karen’s sister Jule travels with her family to Markus’ birthday party. While Karen takes everyone’s breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a front forms against Karen until everything escalates into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to create the new.
- Production
- Zürcher Film, SRF, SRG SSR
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Ramon Zürcher
- Writers
- Ramon Zürcher
- Producers
- Silvan Zürcher
- Cinematography
- Alex Hasskerl
- Composer
- Balz Bachmann
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Brent Marchant
October 25, 2024
To be blunt, I really dislike arthouse films that give the genre a bad name, yet writer-director Ramon Zürcher’s third feature outing regrettably does just that. This pretentious, meandering exercise in allegedly profound cinema falls flat shortly after it begins and never recovers, growing ever more pointless, unfocused and self-important as it unfolds. Set in the rural childhood home of two very different and quietly combative sisters (Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein), the film follows the ev…













