Yves Yersin

Swiss film director (1942–2018)

Yves Yersin
Born	4 October 1942 Lausanne, Switzerland
Died	15 November 2018(2018-11-15) (aged 76) Baulmes, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1968-1979

Yves Yersin (4 October 1942 – 15 November 2018) was a Swiss film director.^[1] His film Les petites fugues competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Biography

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.

Filmography

Swiss Made (1968)
Quatre d'entre elles (1968)
Die letzten Heimposamenter (1974)
Les petites fugues (1979)
Tableau Noir (2013)^[3]

References

^ Morto il regista Yves Yersin (in Italian)
^ "Festival de Cannes: Les petites fugues". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
^ "Yves Yersin, réalisateur des "Petites Fugues", est décédé". RTS (in French). 18 November 2018.