Freddy Buache
(1924-2019)
Introduction
Freddy Buache was a film critic and film historian, and Director of the Cinémathèque suisse from 1951 to 1996, although he had started collaborating with the institution from its founding in 1948. He was actively involved in FIAF from the early 1950s. He hosted the 1954 Congress in Lausanne, joined the Executive Committee in 1955 and served as FIAF Treasurer in 1957-58. When Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque française left FIAF in the early 1960s, Buache followed suit. The Cinémathèque suisse was re-admitted as a FIAF member in 1972 and Buache hosted the 1979 Congress. He was elected FIAF Honorary Member in April 2018, and a year later was a guest of honour of the third FIAF Congress held in Lausanne, a few weeks before he passed away.
