The Laundry Room
7.7
The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the tenants who have been housed here by the city’s social services department is not something to be taken for granted. Although the laundry room is normally located in the cellar, the tenants in this building share a tiny laundry room off the entrance hall because the cellar is reserved for prostitution. To maintain order and cleanliness, the landlord hires Claudina, a new “laundry woman”.
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Floriane Devigne Director · Fred Florey Director Alex Müller Composer
First release April 20, 2013 · Produced in France, Switzerland · Languages French, Portuguese, Spanish
Production
Alina Film
Production
Les Productions de l’œil sauvage
Production
TV Tours-Val de Loire
Production
RTS
Production
France · Switzerland
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Languages
Original title
La clé de la chambre à lessive
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · Portuguese · Spanish
Release dates
Switzerland · April 20, 2013
Premiere · Visions du Réel Film Festival
Switzerland · April 24, 2013
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Brazil
November 17, 2014 · Theatrical
France
November 10, 2014 · Theatrical
Poland
April 24, 2014 · Theatrical
Spain
December 4, 2014 · Theatrical
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