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 HANS IM GLÜCK is the story of a man who sets out to get rid of his habit of smoking. Thus he plans to walk from Zurich, his present residence, «back» to his native town St. Gallen, where he startet to smoke a long time ago. |
 Aline, a solitary and introverted young girl living in the Alps, falls in love passionately with a tourist. But when she sees him again in town he tells her that he doesn't love her. Unable to accept this rejection Aline increasingly goes insane, hearing voices that suggest another way to unite with her lover. |
 Another bear has suddenly appeared in a small village in the Grison Alps. The renowned Swiss bear expert, Urs Nägeli, sends his German assistant, Paula Kreuzer, to Valbensa to make an appraisal of how dangerous the animal is. There she meets Beat Geser, the only big game hunter in Switzerland. |
 Cesare, a former human trafficker, finds the corpse of his nephew Fausto a remote Piedmont valley. In search of the murderer, he himself is suspected. He is also pressured by a young, rebellious villager: Sergio, who wants to escape from the valley and his father, wants to bring refugees abandoned on an alp across the border. |
 The film begins in 1780 and traces the life of the poet Julius Schönfeld, based on fragments from a diary. Episodically, the film tells of his life at a royal court in Germany. With one feast after another, the prince’s carefree lifestyle takes a drastic turn when his cook dies. |
 Daniel Berger, a civil servant in land registry office in the canton of Vaud has an enviable life with his own villa and expensive car… It is well known around lake Leman that keeping relations on an even keel makes for good relations. |
 Winter. Two small villages in the Swiss mountains: Vorderau and Hinterau. Two outlaws, anumbrella-mender and a basket-maker become friends. After one too many schnapps theumbrella-mender, searching for his lost love, freezes to death in the rugged forest between thetwo villages. |
 One early morning in May 1940, border guard Tschumi comes upon a German fugitive, Kramer, who is trying to swim across the Rhine to get into Switzerland. He swears the Gestapo are after him, and requests political asylum. Unable to provide proof that he is in danger, he faces being sent back to Germany. |
 Renatus is forty and lives with his mother. A secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics by profession, he gave up teaching years ago because, as he says, the lessons affected his nerves so much. R. is a highly sensitive man with pronounced sexual fantasies. |
 Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more entangled Keller gets in the treads of the apparently clearcut case of sex murder, the more obvious the flaws in the village idyll become. |
 A typical swiss is dying but he is not aware of it. He thinks to be on a chinese island. I can try to give an idea of what MACAO, OR BEYOND THE SEA is about, but be forewarned that it can’t be called an objective description. |
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 S'MARGRITLI UND D'SOLDATE was part of a series of military films of which the best known is FÜSILIER WIPF (1938). Margritli is a waitress working in a French-speaking Swiss village during the war. |
 A farmer defends himself against a big industry. |
 Ten years later, as a reporter for a private radio station, Max is looking for a lucky competition winner of one kilo of gold and ten kilos of chocolate. In the hustle and bustle of the 700th anniversary celebrations of the Swiss Confederation and the 800th anniversary of the Canton of Berne, he meets a girl to whom he can proudly introduce his friend and rock star Polo. |
 Someone - or the Passion to Resist is about the change in resistance culture in the 20th century. Half a century later, the members of the former socialist workers' youth, who placed emphasis on order and discipline, are confronted with the spontaneous actions of the political movement "Züri 1990". |
 The inventor who does not know that his invention does already exist. With Bruno Ganz "In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. |
 Uta finds a man. One fine evening she takes him to her flat. She likes him and wants to get to know him. After initial inhibition, the ice melts thanks to sienna wine, crisps and verbal bonding. However, Hans has a decisive disadvantage: he is dead. What only becomes obvious to the audience at the end of the film is clear to Uta from the beginning. |
 The history of a murderer, as the subtitle explains, is also the history of a guillotine that is kept and maintained in the police museum; it is set up once again for this film. |
 A film by the actor Max Haufler about jenisch people |
 When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn't need to be talked about. And now? Two years ago Martha died, Hans can barely manage his daily routine anymore, and after a visit to the vet his beloved dog Miller doesn't return home. |
 Franz von Werra fighter pilot for the German Luftwaffe during World War II, gentleman, favourite of the Nazi media, and the only German ever to escape British captivity. During the mid-50's, the spectacular escape to Canada and the USA was made into a film with Hardy Kruger in the leading role. |
 Following his execution on August 5th 1993 in Huntsville, the body of Joseph Paul Jernigan is transferred to the University of Colorado Medical Center. Two years later science rejoices at the birth of the very first digitalised man. The "Visible Human Project" has been disseminated all over the world thanks to 800 licences, eventually arriving on the internet. |
 In wintry West Berlin, Max, Laurids and Lola live together in an apartment while the real tenant is away. Upon his return, the three have to move out. This gives an uncertain atmosphere to their being together. Each tries to find his own way and to rob sense from everyday life. |
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 For the brief summer period, Giovanni Boggini, native of the town of Aquila, leads his cattle onto the mountain pasture. We are in the Greina Alps, a vast plateau which unites Ticino and Grigioni. This will be the dairyman’s last year of producing his cheese and butter in a wood-fired cauldron, in the traditional way. |
 The man who head nurse Klara finds half unconscious on the country road and admits to the community hospital of M?nchenbuchsee is dirty and run-down. But his shirt is made of raw silk and wears the etiquette of a Parisian chemist, and when Sister Klara gives him the first syringe, he kisses her hand in gratitude. |
 Although nobody actually admits to liking them, nobody can stop themselves watching. Since time anon, animal fights have received equal measures of scorn and popularity. What makes people put animals up against each other? Could it be the beast within? The film endeavours to trace our martial instincts within a number of diverse cultures. |
 Thirty-year-old Grégoire has arranged to meet his fiancée Anne and his future in-laws in a restaurant and arrives much later than the appointed time. The atmosphere is tense by the time the food is served. Grégoire feels uncomfortable and escapes to the restroom, where he happens to find a pistol with a silencer in the wastebasket. |
Is Snow White a tribute to the era of sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and politics? Samir : Yes, that's true. All of the above have my fingerprints all over them... I have always been curious to give society a shake, and I still cherish the dream that one day it will change for the better ! 20 year-old Nico (Julie Fournier) lives to party. |
One early morning in May 1940, border guard Tschumi comes upon a German fugitive, Kramer, who is trying to swim across the Rhine to get into Switzerland. He swears the Gestapo are after him, and requests political asylum. Unable to provide proof that he is in danger, he faces being sent back to Germany. |
Life is not easy for the Balog family. They live in the countryside of eastern Hungary with their seven children. The parents struggle to make ends meet. The eldest son, Ruben, is unsatisfied with his life and by the lack of perspective a future in his country offers. |
This film is about two artists: one from the mountains, the Italian-Swiss architect Mario Botta, who built a chapel – and the other, the Italian artist Enzo Cucchi, a man of the sea, who painted the frescoes in it, one of which is 70 m long. Both artists are endowed with the gift of being able to perceive and sense their innermost feelings and to create visual images of them. |
Max Bodmer and Moritz Fischer, the leading characters in this ironic, satirical comedy dealing with becoming - and living as - a Swiss citizen, are members of the Cantonal Police entrusted with the delicate task of examining foreigners who are candidates for Swiss citizenship. |
The inventor who does not know that his invention does already exist. With Bruno Ganz "In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. |
The movie is based on the autobiographical novel DIE REISE (THE JOURNEY) of Bernward Vesper. He is the son of a famous nazi-poet and life's companion of the female terrorist Gudrun Ensslin. |
A farmer defends himself against a big industry. |
Winter. Two small villages in the Swiss mountains: Vorderau and Hinterau. Two outlaws, anumbrella-mender and a basket-maker become friends. After one too many schnapps theumbrella-mender, searching for his lost love, freezes to death in the rugged forest between thetwo villages. |
A typical swiss is dying but he is not aware of it. He thinks to be on a chinese island. I can try to give an idea of what MACAO, OR BEYOND THE SEA is about, but be forewarned that it can’t be called an objective description. |
In wintry West Berlin, Max, Laurids and Lola live together in an apartment while the real tenant is away. Upon his return, the three have to move out. This gives an uncertain atmosphere to their being together. Each tries to find his own way and to rob sense from everyday life. |
For the brief summer period, Giovanni Boggini, native of the town of Aquila, leads his cattle onto the mountain pasture. We are in the Greina Alps, a vast plateau which unites Ticino and Grigioni. This will be the dairyman’s last year of producing his cheese and butter in a wood-fired cauldron, in the traditional way. |
The meeting with "deep night" is in the fairy tale setting of a cabaret. |
Ten years later, as a reporter for a private radio station, Max is looking for a lucky competition winner of one kilo of gold and ten kilos of chocolate. In the hustle and bustle of the 700th anniversary celebrations of the Swiss Confederation and the 800th anniversary of the Canton of Berne, he meets a girl to whom he can proudly introduce his friend and rock star Polo. |
Someone - or the Passion to Resist is about the change in resistance culture in the 20th century. Half a century later, the members of the former socialist workers' youth, who placed emphasis on order and discipline, are confronted with the spontaneous actions of the political movement "Züri 1990". |
Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more entangled Keller gets in the treads of the apparently clearcut case of sex murder, the more obvious the flaws in the village idyll become. |
The house "banneret Wisard", built in 1535, is one of the most ancient dwellings in the Bernese Jura and has been listed as a historic monument of national importance. The association "la maison du Banneret Wisard" was started by a group of enthusiasts in 1990. |
Cesare, a former human trafficker, finds the corpse of his nephew Fausto a remote Piedmont valley. In search of the murderer, he himself is suspected. He is also pressured by a young, rebellious villager: Sergio, who wants to escape from the valley and his father, wants to bring refugees abandoned on an alp across the border. |
Alessandro cannot believe his eyes when he comes across a staggeringly attractive beauty in a coffee shop. He is unable to approach her and so he runs off. But Angelique does not want to let him get away and follows him across the whole city. |