Swiss scientists dive into disaster, but Lake Lucerne isn't done with WWII secrets yet.
After a landslide in the Axenstrasse, geologist Mara Graf and her boyfriend, seismologist Gian Wyss, are investigating for the Seismological Service of the University of Technology in Switzerland. For Gian this is a good opportunity to spend some weeks of Spring at home. For Mara to be with her grandmother and sister. The next day Mara Gian want to anchor indicators at the bottom of Lake Lucerne in a dive. They decide to dive alone. Before Mara could follow him, an explosion rocked their ship.
Cinematography
Lake Lucerne shot like a beautiful murder weapon.
Practical Effects
Underwater sequences that actually look cold and terrifying.
Director
Sabine Boss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film weaponizes Lake Lucerne's real history: Swiss lakes still contain thousands of tons of improperly disposed WWII ammunition, a dirty secret of 'neutral' wartime profiteering.
Director Sabine Boss deliberately cast German actress Claudia Michelsen against Swiss leads to emphasize Mara's outsider status—she's literally not from here, missing the local warnings others intuit.
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