Film · Documentary

The Windmill (1975)

In preparation for a feature-length film about windmills, an assistant director travels through the Vaud region to search for locations with windmills. The research leads to a serious engagement with the meaning and purpose of windmills, which has something Don Quixote-like about it in the age of nuclear power stations. The transitions between document and fiction flow constantly and result in a charming and intellectual mixture of seriousness and fun, determination and coincidence, weightlessness and the weight of meaning.

Director

Michel Soutter

Writers

Michel Soutter

Country

France, Switzerland

Language

French

Release date

February 10, 1975

Original title

L’Eolienne