Yves Yersin

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1942-10-08

Deathday 2018-11-15 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Yves Yersin

Biography

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. Source: Article "Yves Yersin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Director

2013
Tableau noir

as Director

1982
1979
Les Petites Fugues

as Director

1974
1969
Swissmade

as Director

1968
Four of Them

as Director

Writer

1982
1979
Les Petites Fugues

as Screenplay

1974
1969
Swissmade

as Writer

Editor

1982
1979

Producer

1974

Actor

1974