Skip to content
Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Yves Yersin

Yves Yersin (4 October 1942 – 15 November 2018) was a Swiss film director. His film Les petites fugues competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.


Yves Yersin
4 October 1942Lausanne, Switzerland
15 November 2018(2018-11-15) (aged 76)Baulmes, Switzerland
Film director
1968-1979

Yves Yersin (4 October 1942 – 15 November 2018) was a Swiss film director. His film Les petites fugues competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Yersin studied photography at the Center Vocational de Vevey from 1959 to 1961, and received a Federal Certificate of Capacity. He began advertising photography in 1962 and trained as a cameraman from 1963 to 1964.

While at the Expo 64, Yersin assisted René Crux during the Polyvision slideshow.

Yersin joined the Fondation du Groupe 5 with Alain Tanner, Jean-Louis Roy, Michel Soutter, and Jean-Jacques Lagrange in 1971.

  • Swiss Made (1968)

  • Quatre d'entre elles (1968)

  • Die letzten Heimposamenter (1974)

  • Les petites fugues (1979)

  • Tableau Noir (2013)

  • Yves Yersin at IMDb

  • Yves Yersin at the Swiss Film Directory

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Yves Yersin — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report