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An Evening with Arthur Cohn - A collaboration with the ZFF The Swiss „Legend of Hollywood“

Zurich, September 30, 2013

Ringier AG and Schweizer Illustrierte in collaboration with the Zurich Film Festival present an evening dedicated to Arthur Cohn. This celebrated Swiss film producer will present his Oscar-nominated 1998 film CENTRAL DO BRASIL (CENTRAL STATION) by to an audience of international, prominent guests from the fields of politics, economics and culture on Thursday, 3.10. at 7.15pm at the Arena Cinemas, Sihlcity. The Green Carpet takes place at the Arena Cinemas at 6pm.

The list of honorary guests includes Germany’s former Federal Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder, Gabriele Inaara Begum Khan, publisher Friede Springer, director Michael Verhoeven and the actors Michel Piccoli and Veronica Ferres.

With six Oscars to his name, Basel-born Arthur Cohn is one of the world’s best- known film producers. Recipient of various honorary doctorates and other illustrious titles, he has taken home awards from every important film festival. Cohn has produced 18 documentaries and feature films, all of which are mild, poetic and humane-orientated works. His productions, for which he often uses young and hitherto unknown talent, go way beyond the mainstream.

This applies as much to IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI as it does to LA DIAGONALE DU FOU, WHITE LIES, ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER, CENTRAL STATION, LES CHORISTES or the road movie THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF, which was screened as a European premiere at the 2009 Zurich Film Festival, to name but a few. A Radio Beromünster journalist for many years, Cohn first entered the industry as a screenwriter. He has been an out and out producer since 1961, a perfectionist devoted entirely to his craft. Actor aptly summed up Cohn’s commitment as „a spiritual and physical loyalty to the work at hand“.

Please ask Claudia Wintsch for a Green Carpet accreditation of „An Evening with Arthur Cohn“ ([email protected]). The Carpet takes place on Thursday (Oct 3) at 6pm at Arena Cinemas.

The “An Evening wit Artur Cohn” is sponsored by upc cablecom.

The 9th Zurich Film Festival takes place from September 26 to October 6, 2013 For more information: www.zff.com Thank you to the main sponsors of ZFF 2013: Credit Suisse, upc cablecom, Swiss Post, Audi