21/09/2005

Already awarded the the swiss Cinema Prize for 2005, the Prix Cinemavvenir for best fiction film at the Venice Festival in 2004 and various other awards, Winter without a fire has been nominated for the European Cinema Prize for 2005.

At the heart of this success, the flair of Gérard Ruey and Jean-Louis Porchet, the two associates at the Swiss French-speaking firm CAB Productions S.A, should be noted. Seduced by the first screenplay by Pierre-Pascal Rossi (62), former star journalist for Télévision Suisse Romande, they entrusted the direction , too, to a newcomer. Until then, Greg Zglinski, Swiss-Polish, 37, had only made short and medium length films. Educated at the Krzysztof Kieslowski school at Lodz, he was one of the last to benefit from his advice, in 1996, since the Polish filmmaker died shortly after supervises his student film : "Krysztof said, it’s not important where you put the camera, what’s important is why you put it where you put it. … what he taught me was fundamental", says Greg Zglinski. This influence is evident in the sensitivity of his direction, a very controlled view of a family drama – the death of a child – in which life and death are intertwined.

In Switzerland , more 33 000 spectators have already seen Tout un hiver sans feu, which came out in January in French-speaking Switzerland. Majority Swiss (CAB Productions and Télévision Suisse Romande), the film was co-produced with the Belgian company Mars Entertainment , RTBF, Arte and Telewizja Polska.

(Translated from French)