Walo Lüönd

Walo Lüönd

Birth : 1927-04-13, Zug, Switzerland

Death : 2012-06-17

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Walo Lüönd

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The Day of the Cat
Schneider Feinstein
The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. From a meeting with the Spanish royal couple, he hopes media attention and a popularity boost. He does not suspect that his closest confidant Pfiff, of all people, is intriguing against him in order to come to power himself. But he does not even shy away from misusing his family for his own purposes. Soon, the president has to fight not only for his political position, but also for his marriage.
Verlassen
Bruno Bergmann
Briefe und andere Geheimnisse
Sternenberg
Hans Grob
Franz Engi returns to his hometown after being away for 30 years. A lot of things have changed in that time. There are only few families with children left in the village and that is why the school is about to be closed down. Franz decides to save the school and teacher Eva's job in a very unusual way....
Exit
Ruedi
Erika has cancer and wants to die with dignity. Ruedi, her husband, does not want to live without her, so they decide to depart this world together. Everything is ready: someone is going to help them, but Ruedi suddenly has doubts. A reflection on “assisted suicide”, recounted in a tragicomic vein.
Escape to Paradise
Sehmuz, his wife Delal and their three children have saved themselves by escaping from Turkey to Switzerland. They are temporarily lodged in the asylum centre, together with refugees from Africa and East Europe that can se the funny side of everyday life despite their scars and nightmares. However, their fates do not sound genuine enough for the asylum authorities, this is what Sehmuz’ Kurdish compatriot Aziz claims. He sends Sehmuz to a Swiss who invents a credible story substantiated by documents. Sehmuz persuades Delal to pawn the family jewels and buys a new biography, which he laboriously learns by heart with the help of his children. Yet, at the decisive interview he can no longer remember the weather in Izmir …
Comedian
Alois Bissinger
Roni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his mother's appartment in an old people's home, continuing to believe firmly that his day in the limelight will come. One day Serge Grätzer, the director of the old people's home, discovers Roni, and makes him help out with the work. Serge then decides to take a hand in Roni's career, embezzling money to launch the budding comedian. Once again however success eludes Roni. In the end Serge decides to fulfil his own secret longings to be on the stage. This leads to a row between the two men. Despite a reconciliation, they never again appear together on the stage. And when Serge's embezzlement is discovered he has to flee with the police at his heels and the home has to be closes. In the end, Roni persuades Mr. Klein, an eccentric old man who likes to play the stock market, to save the home with the millions he has stashed away.
Irrlichter
Sepp Tresch
Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter
Kapitän
Golden Boy
Herr Troller
Non-Stop Trouble With the Experts
Horst Neumann
Willi Schulze is a car mechanic. Together with Paul, who escaped from an orphanage, he runs a garage. During the testing of a car, Willi finds out the brakes aren't working that good. A fatal accident can just be prevented. He tries to hitchhike home and gets picked up by American election expert Willy Schneider. Together they also get an accident and both lose their memory. The police assumes Schulze is the election expert and rapidly he turns into the pivot in a stone-hard election-contest.
Der Schiedsrichter
Landolt
Gauner im Paradies
Emil Bächerli
Tapetenwechsel
Vermieter
The Black Spider
Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.
The Inventor
Otti
In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.
Matto regiert
Oberst Caplaun
Bread and Stones
Bodenbauer
A small farmer's struggle for survival against the odds.
Zones
Nachtwächter
Without knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park. The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks. Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years, are childless, and live on the 16th floor of a new building. Thanks to their various crises, they have got to know each other somewhat better, but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity. On Friday, August 12th 1977, a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country. The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast. The authorities order a ban on information, but those concerned break their imposed silence. On Sunday evening, it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of "dress rehearsal" for a real emergency. Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention - but now they are conscious of the fact.
The Swissmakers
Max Bodmer
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
The Consequence
Giorgio Manzoni
Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
Riedland
De grotzepuur
Schaeggel der Knecht
In Sachen Fischer
Staatsanwalt
Die Fabrikanten
Onkel Otmar Nef
Ein Schweizer wie bestellt
Barta
Der Fall
Alfons Grendelmann
In this Swiss film noir a private investigator stumbles onto a case involving blackmail and an oversexed, under-aged girl. He finds the girl, and, tragically, becomes involved with her.
Koralle Meier - Geschichte einer Privaten
Friseur Goldbaum
Dällebach Kari
Karl Tellenbach
Karl Tellenbach, called "Dällebach Kari", was one of Bern’s legendary characters at the beginning of the 20th century. Born with a strong hare lip which left him disfigured and gave his voice a peculiarl nasal tone, he devoted his entire life trying to get people to laugh with him instead of at him. Ultimately, his despairing at ever becoming accepted as a fellow man coupled with unrequited love made his life tragic, culminating in his suicide at age 54. His jokes are still well known today.
Zwei ahnungslose Engel
Johnson - der Ankläger
Die Mission
Gestapo-Spitzel
Der dritte Handschuh
Wilhelm Husemann
Ein Anderer für zwei Tage
Calandrino
Der Mann mit der Puppe
Tom Whittlo
Der Kinderdieb
Dr. Delaville-Rébértot
Die Räuber
Schufterle
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg
Werber
Im Schatten einer Großstadt
Dr. Philipp
Sicher ist sicher
Wiesel
Die Rache des Jebal Deeks
McComb
Das Ende vom Lied
Gemeiner Smith
Mamselle Nitouche
Buffo Dorival
Nachts ging das Telefon
Jan Piepenbrink
Affäre Blum
Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger
Das Paradies von Pont L'Eveque
Michel
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Detective Haase
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
Café Oriental
Ludwig
Die Wildente
Diener Jensen
Venus im Licht
Diener Bates
Die Liebe des Jahres
1. Geheimbeamter
Der König ist tot
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