''Hide and Seek'' ( rm, Amur senza fin, lit=Endless love) is a Swiss

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

film directed by

Christoph Schaub Christoph Schaub (born 1958) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. He has directed fourteen films since 1987. His 2008 film '' Happy New Year'' was entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival The 31st Moscow International ...

. It is the first-ever

Romansh language Romansh (; sometimes also spelled Romansch and Rumantsch; Sursilvan: ; Vallader, Surmiran, and Rumantsch Grischun: ; Putèr: ; Sutsilvan: , , ; Jauer: ) is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Gr ...

television film and made its debut at the

Locarno Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

. The film was also screened at the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...

before airing on Swiss national television in September 2018.

Cinema Management Group Cinema Management Group is an American company located in Beverly Hills, California that acquires, licenses, and distributes feature films, animation and documentaries. The company is noted for its catalog of internationally produced animated feat ...

purchased the international distribution rights for the film.

Plot

In a small village in Grisons, Mona and Gieri, a middle-aged couple who have been married for twenty years, are having difficulty with their romantic relationship. They befriend Father Nanda Sharma, their village's new Catholic priest, and ask for his advice to help spice up their relationship. His unconventional ways stir up trouble in the village. Upon discovering that Gieri has had an extramarital affair, Mona leaves him. She opens a café and starts dating another man. Gieri, encouraged by their two children, tries to win her back.

Cast

* Rebecca Indermaur as Mona * Bruno Cathomas as Gieri * Tonia Maria Zindel as Guilia * Beat Marti as Urs * Marietta Jemmi as Carla * Murali Perumal as Father Nanda Sharma * René Schnoz as Silvio * Anita Iselin as Ladina * Martin Rapold as Michael * Muriel Degonda as Peppina * Bono Jacomet as Leo * Peter Jecklin as Vicar General Huber * Roman Weishaupt as Hunter

Production and release

''Amur senza fin'' was directed by

and co-produced by the

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (german: Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft; french: Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision; it, Società svizzera di radiotelevisione; rm, Societad Svizra da Radio e Televisiun; SRG ...

's Zodiac Pictures LTD and premiered at the

Festival del film Locarno The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...

in August 2018. In September 2018 it was screened at the

. On 2 September 2018 ''Amur senza fin'' was shown at more than 20 cinemas throughout Switzerland for Cinema Day. The television premiere was broadcast on 23 September 2018 on

SRF 1 SRF 1 (''SRF eins'') is a German-language Swiss television channel, one of three produced by the SRG SSR public-service broadcasting group (the others being SRF zwei and SRF info). The channel, formerly known as SF1, was renamed on 16 Decemb ...

. It is the first

television film produced.

, a Los Angeles–based film company, bought the international distribution rights for ''Amur senza fin''.

References

{{Reflist 2018 romantic comedy-drama films 2018 films Romansh-language films Swiss Broadcasting Corporation Swiss romantic comedy-drama films