Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu
Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
Nastassja Tanner, Maxime Gorbatchevsky
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
Maxime Gorbatchevsky
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
Michel Vuillermoz, Adrien Barazzone
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
Lionel Baier
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
© Claude Dussez
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
The narrative flow in Lionel Baier’s film becomes increasingly dreamy. In flashbacks and daydreams, some of the characters suddenly start talking to camera, the images are sometimes briefly slowed down, and the past bursts into the present more and more. Reymond, first name Mathieu never actually existed. However, Michel Peiry, nicknamed ‘the sadist of Romont’, did indeed terrorise Switzerland and elsewhere as a rapist and murderer between 1981 and 1987. Part of a four-part series on true crime cases.
Trailer/Film Excerpt
With
- Maxime Gorbatchevsky (Mathieu)
- Michel Vuillermoz (Jotterand)
- Ursina Lardi (Edda)
- Mickael Ammann (Mica)
- Adrien Barazzone (Milan)
- Pierre-Isaïe Duc (Roland)
Crew
| Director | Lionel Baier |
| Screenplay | Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux |
| Cinematography | Patrick Lindenmaier |
| Editing | Pauline Gaillard |
| Sound | Marc von Stürler |
| Producers | Lionel Baier, Agnieszka Ramu, Françoise Mayor |
| Co-Production |
Arte Straßburg SRG SSR Bern Radio Télévision Suisse RTS Genf |
Produced by
Bande à part Films
Lausanne, Switzerland
Lionel Baier, Ursula Meier
The directors of the two shows of the series Ondes de choc, which were screened in 2018.
Ondes de choc – Journal de ma tête | Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind · Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu · Panorama · Feb 19, 2018
Lionel Baier, Ursina Lardi
The director and the actress at the Press Conference.
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu · Panorama · Feb 19, 2018
Ursina Lardi, Lionel Baier
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Lionel Baier (Director and Screenwriter Prénom: Mathieu), Ursina Lardi (Actress Prénom: Mathieu), Fanny Ardant (Actress Journal de ma tête), Ursula Meier (Director and Screenwriter Journal de ma tête), Moderation: Nikolaj Nikitin
Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu
Panorama · Press Conference · Feb 19, 2018
Lionel Baier
Born in Lausanne in 1975 to a Swiss family of Polish origin, he began his career in 1992 as programmer and manager of Cinéma Rex in Aubonne. Since 2002, he has been head of the cinema department at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). In 2009, he co-founded Bande à part Films with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud. In 2014, he received the Grand Prix Culturel der Fondation vaudoise pour la culture. His film Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu screened in Panorama at the 2018 Berlinale. In 2023, he became head of directing at the Parisian film school La Fémis. He is also vice-chairman of the Cinémathèque Suisse and Visions du Réel board.
Filmography
2000 Celui au pasteur (ma vision personnelle des choses) (The Pastor's); documentary 2001 La Parade (notre histoire); documentary 2004 Garçon stupide (Stupid Boy) 2006 Comme des voleurs (à l'est) (Stealth (East)) 2008 Un autre homme (Another Man) 2010 Low Cost (Claude Jutra) · Toulouse 2011 Bon vent Claude Goretta; documentary 2013 Les grandes ondes (à l'ouest) (Longwaves) 2015 La Vanité (The Vanity) 2017 Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu (Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu) 2022 La dérive des continents (au sud) (Continental Drift (South)) 2023 Une main muette; short film 2025 La cache (The Safe House)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025