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Mauro Mueller’s ‘111 – Echoes From Halifax’ Might Chronicle Tragic 1998 Swissair Plane Crash, but This Is Not Your Regular Disaster Movie

For years, Fidelio Films producer Björn Hering wanted to make a film about the tragedy of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Canadian coast of Halifax in 1998. Hering, the son-in-law of flight pilot Urs Zimmermann, urged his creative partner Mauro Mueller to take on the project, but it took the director a decade […]

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For years, Fidelio Films producer Björn Hering wanted to make a film about the tragedy of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Canadian coast of Halifax in 1998. Hering, the son-in-law of flight pilot Urs Zimmermann, urged his creative partner Mauro Mueller to take on the project, but it took the director a decade […]

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According to Variety’s source item, Mauro Mueller’s ‘111 – Echoes From Halifax’ Might Chronicle Tragic 1998 Swissair Plane Crash, but This Is Not Your Regular Disaster Movie, For years, Fidelio Films producer Björn Hering wanted to make a film about the tragedy of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Canadian coast of Halifax in 1998. Hering, the son-in-law of flight pilot Urs Zimmermann, urged his creative partner Mauro Mueller to take on the project, but it took the director a decade […]

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