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Most Romansh movies are documentaries or portrait movies. They are especially produced by the Televisiun Rumantscha (TvR) but also by regional institutions (e.g. Verein für Bündner Kulturforschung) and private individuals.
Moreover, there are movie versions of books e.g. “Accord”, the novelette by Oscar Peer or the novel “Levzas petras” by Gion Deplazes.
TvR started off in 1963 with a documentary on Romansh as national language. In the 1970ies several movies were produced which documented Romansh cultural assets such as trade (Handwerksberuf) (“Il terscher da Flond”) or disappeared landscapes (“L’En raquinta”).
In the 90ies the Romansh documentaries gained international reputation e.g. the movie on the architects A. Caminada and P. Zumthor. In the meantime, this movie is known in most museums of architecture.
In collaboration with freelance film-makers TvR got known throughout all the country. For example in 1998 the Swiss-Irakquian filmmaker Samir tracked down former Tibet refugees living in the Engadine.
The movie “Increschantüm-Da Fränzli Waser als Fränzlis da Tschlin” (2000) directed by Stefan Haupt was the first Romansh movie to be screened for weeks in the German part of Switzerland.
As the following movies “Die weisse Hölle von Piz Palü“ (Upper Engadine, 1929, Drama), „Spuren im Eis – Adrenalin Junkies“ (Surselva, 2000, Thriller), „Heidi“ (Lower Engadine, 2001), „Marmorera“ (Central Grisons, 2006, Mistery-Thriller) show, the canton Grisons has been the setting and the film location of different types of movies since the very beginning of cinematography.