Pas de Café, pas de télé, pas de sexe

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(aka No coffee, no TV, no sex)

Director Romed Wyder

Screenplay Romed Wyder, Maria Watzlawick

Cast Vincent Coppey, Alexandra Tiedemann, Pietro Musillo, Nalini Selvadoray

Cinematography Stéphane Kuthy Sound, mixing Martin Stricker Editing Orsola Valenti Music Thierry Clerc, Daniel Schweizer Line producer Christophe Cupelin Artistic collaboration Maria Watzlawick

Production Paradigma Films, Radio Télévision Suisse, Suissimage

ISAN 0000-0000-D7DC-0000-S-0000-0000-O

fiction – 87 min. – Switzerland – 1999

Synopsis

No coffee, no TV, no sex is a dramatic comedy. It is the story of Arno, a 27 year old living in the Geneva squats. His best friend, Maurizio, obtained a residence permit for Switzerland through an convenience wedding. Nina, Maurizio’s girlfriend, is French but would also like to live in Geneva: she faces the same administrative obstacle.

In order for her to obtain a permit, Maurizio convinces Arno, for the sake of their friendship, to marry her out of convenience. Reluctantly, Arno accepts and Maurizio, unsuspecting, leaves for a few days. Alone with Nina, Arno, usually shy with women, falls in love with her. She falls in love with him.

When Maurizio returns, Arno cannot hide the truth from him. He and Nina end up telling him about their relationship. They reconsider the arrangement and try to settle the dilemma together…