LOCARNO, Switzerland -- The Locarno International Film Festival paused Sunday to mourn the death of Swiss director Daniel Schmid, who succumbed to cancer earlier in the day. He was 64. Schmid, one of a small handful of Swiss directors with an international reputation, had been a regular at the Locarno fest, where he was given the Leopard of Honor award in 1999. He was best known for his 1984 documentary Il Bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss) and Schatten der Engel (Shadow of Angels), which screened in competition at the Festival de Cannes in 1976. "This is a sad day; Switzerland lost one of its most important and talented directors," said Locarno artistic director Frederic Maire, who paused the evening's screenings at the festival's Piazza Grande to pay respects to Schmid.
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