Emil Hegetschweiler

Emil Hegetschweiler

Birth : 1887-10-15,

Death : 1959-10-01

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Emil Hegetschweiler

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Café Odeon
Walter - Oberkellner
A "milieustudie" about a girl going to the famous Cafe Odeon and trying to make ends meet.
Die Käserei in der Vehfreude
Der Pfarrer
The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf.
Der 10. Mai
Tschurni
Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland, which hadn't experienced a war since the 14th century, hurriedly fortified its borders with battalions of inexperienced soldiers. The panic, confusion and isolated acts of courage which occurred on that fateful day are re-created in this Swiss docudrama. The story is "personalized" by concentrating on a fugitive German soldier (Heinz Reincke) who falls in love with the Swiss girl (Linda Geiser) who shelters him. Produced on a bare-minimum budget, Der 10. Mai is impressive more for its sincerity and raw energy than for its actual cinematic merits.
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Gemeindepräsident
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
The Zürrer Bakery
Screenplay
Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.
The Zürrer Bakery
Bäckermeister Zürrer
Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.
Taxichauffeur Bänz
Vater Schellenberg
Oberstadtgass
Sattler Rüttimann
Realist melodrama set in Zurich.
Polizischt Wäckerli
Konrad Häberli
Wäckerli, policeman in the small Swiss village of Allenwil, is in trouble. His son Ruedi is unhappy in his apprenticeship and spends way too much money. And now 10'000 francs have been stolen from the bourough's community fund...
Uli the Tenant
Joggeli, der Glunggenbauer
Uli has been the tenant of the "Glunggen-farm" for two years. His wife Vreneli gave him two children and the couple is happy. But this year, the harvest looks bad and his landlord calls in the rent, as the old man urgently needs money to satisfy the demands of his son and stepson. Desperate to make ends meet, Uli fraudulently sells a cow knowing that she does not produce any milk. He is pursued in court but is acquitted. But then, the buyer curses him... and disaster promptly strikes.
Uli der Knecht
Joggeli, Glunggenbauer
The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing, and the comic interludes surprisingly subtle and believable for a Swiss film. The no-star cast doomed Uli Der Knecht from the start so far as American distribution was concerned. It was another matter in Switzerland, where the film was one of the year's top moneymakers. Uli der Knecht was based on a novel by Jeremias Gottbelf.
Palace Hotel
Staub, Zimmerkellner
The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
Madness Rules
Gilgen, Pfleger
If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert (Madness Rules) was co-adapted for the screen by Lindtberg from a novel by Friedrich Glauser. Heinrich Gretler stars as Police Constable Studer, the hero of several of Glauser's most popular works. This time, Studer must solve the murder of the director of an insane asylum -- and it's not (surprise, surprise) the most likely suspect, manic-depressive patient Herbert Caplaun. For box-office purposes, Matto Regiert stresses a romantic subplot involving Caplaun and nurse Irma Wasem.
Das Gespensterhaus
Fürsprech Tyffel
In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the middle of the night - scary. Since then, no one dares to live there.
Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe
Pfarrer
While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead...
Fräulein Huser
Director
Füsilier Wipf
Wiederkehr
Kleine Scheidegg
Concierge
A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.
Jä-soo!
Jakob Stäubli
Wie d'Warret würkt
Confectioner Hänggeler