{"id":483,"date":"2016-11-10T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T08:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jura-films.ch\/?page_id=483"},"modified":"2023-07-16T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:12:26","slug":"la-forge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jura-films.ch\/en\/production\/la-forge\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SMITHY"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE SMITHY<\/p>\n

Documentary film, 1978\/79 – 34 minutes – 16mm, colour<\/p>\n

Original version: French with German subtitles (without English subtitles)
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Scriptwriter and director Lucienne Lanaz
\nProtagonist Gody Barth
\nCamera Hans-Toni Aschwanden
\nSound Alain Nicolet
\nLumi\u00e8re Erhard Jacksch, Marcel Sch\u00fcpbach
\nEditing Zo\u00eb Durouchoux
\nStills Marie-Claire Paratte
\nMusic Fran\u00e7ois Gaudard<\/p>\n

SYNOPSIS<\/p>\n

Gody, a young locksmith, blacksmith and artist, earns his living by making constructional parts in his modern workshop. His dream, however, is to create iron sculptures in an old, disused smithy he found. Together with other craftsmen, he reopens the smithy and produces his first artistic creation in the old-fashioned way.
\nInterviews and discussions with Gottfried Barth (Gody), with Albin Ankli, the son of the late village blacksmith, with Jean Christe, president of the heritage protection of the Jura, ADIJ, and Emile Gigon, a historian by passion, intersect the story and are illustrated by numerous shots of remains of smithies and mills of the Jura.<\/p>\n