PRODUCTION / FINANCEMENT Suisse / Allemagne

Début de tournage pour Erosion de Michael Koch, avec Peter Sarsgaard

07/10/2025 - Le réalisateur suisse revient avec un film crépitant de culpabilité et de rédemption, ancré dans l'univers de la neurochirurgie de pointe et dans l'immensité solitaire des Alpes suisses

g-d: L'acteur Peter Sarsgaard, l'actrice Marie-Therese Zgraggen, le réalisateur Michael Koch, et les acteurs Marius Gamma, Bernadette Gamma, Nikolay Gamma et Simon Stadler sur le tournage de Erosion (© Hugofilm)

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Swiss director Michael Koch has begun principal photography on his third feature, Erosion. Following his acclaimed sophomore feature, A Piece of Sky [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which premiered in Competition at the Berlinale in 2022 and earned a Special Mention, Koch returns with a drama about personal collapse and spiritual reckoning.

The drama follows Christian Andersen, a renowned US neurosurgeon whose life unravels after a tragic incident. Grappling with guilt and denial, he suffers a devastating personal blow when his own daughter goes missing. Determined to find her, he sets out on a journey into a primeval mountain world and into the depths of his own inner self.

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Peter Sarsgaard (The Lost Daughter [+lire aussi :
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Erosion is written by Koch. His early short Polar received a Special Mention at the Berlinale and won the German Short Film Award, while his debut feature, Marija [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], premiered in Competition at Locarno. Filming on Erosion is currently under way in the Swiss canton of Uri. German cinematographer Armin Dierolf, who also lensed A Piece of Sky, returns as director of photography. The production managers are Florian Widmeier and Daniel Illigens. Shooting in Switzerland and Germany will continue until mid-November 2025.

Erosion is a Swiss-German co-production, staged by Christof Neracher for Zurich-based Hugofilm Features in co-production with Christoph Friedel and Claudia Steffen for Cologne-based Pandora Filmproduktion, SRF, SRG SSR and ARTE. The film is supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), the Zurich Film Foundation, the Basel Film Fund, the Central Switzerland Film Fund, Suissimage, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) and WDR. The movie's distribution in Switzerland will be managed by DCM Film Distribution and in Germany by Pandora Film Verleih. A Swiss theatrical release is planned for autumn 2026.