Michael Gempart

Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.

작은 마녀는 고작 127살로 연례 마녀 모임이 참가하기엔 너무 어린 꼬맹이다. 어차피 ‘진짜 마녀’가 되기에 너무 어리다면 진짜 '좋은' 마녀가 되기로 결심한 그녀. 그런데 이 결심이 마술 세계에 소동을 일으킬 줄은 그 누구도 몰랐다. [제13회 부산국제어린이청소년영화제]

Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.

A drama directed by Urs Egger.

Paul (40 yrs old) visits his elderly parents after a long time away. While father has joined a so called free-church, mother is now in a wheelchair and never leaves the house. Paul has not been aware of any of this. He has only come to visit because he is broke and needs money. Father is about to take a trip with his church and has promised to pay Paul for taking care of his mother while he is away.

Life could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: good-looking, young, and Tim's parents. Tim is nine months old. His screaming every night drives his parents around the bend, although he was supposed to cement their relationship. But instead of slumber and sex, it's the same every night: jump out of bed and into the wobbly old Golf whose engine sound is the only thing that calms Tim down. One night, the unbelievable happens…

Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century.

Sebastian, a young male prostitute, is one of Georgs few remaining chances to break through his hermit-like everyday life in exchange for a few fleeting moments of being together with someone at least for a few hours. Georg loves Sebastians easy-going and playful manner. He loves the absurd stories that the boy spontaneously comes up with and Georg never knows whether to actually believe all of them or not.

Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage certificate. Marrying is not an issue for the two - until the little niece India holds cheap plastic jewelry on Nina's finger for an engagement ring and so gets an avalanche rolling, which can not be stopped. - "Marry makes me nervous" is a joke-staged romantic comedy. Suzan Anbeh plays marrying Nina, who has to choose between her fiancé and her childhood sweetheart.

독일어를 모국어처럼 유창하게 구사하는 미모의 처녀 린다는 얼음처럼 차거운 사나이 리랜드의 비서로 일하게 된다. 눈치빠른 린다는 리랜드가 회사 중역을 가장한 첩보요원임을 알게 되고, 두사람은 연인 관계로 발전한다. 진주만 기습을 계기로 미국이 본격적으로 전쟁에 개입하게 되자 리랜드는 원래의 신분인 국방부 대령으로 돌아가 해외 첩보공작을 맡는다. 독일에서 비밀 신무기가 개발되고 있다는 정보가 입수되고, 그 비밀 공장 위치를 추적하던 요원이 살해되자, 린다는 반대하는 리랜드를 설득, 스파이의 기본 훈련도 받지 않은 채 독일에 투입된다. 비밀무기 개발 책임자 디트리히 장군집의 보모로 들어간 린다는 연합군이 애타게 기다리던 비밀무기에 대한 정보를 마이크로 필름에 담아서 도망쳐 나오지만 믿었던 독일처녀 마그레트의 배신으로 총에 맞아 부상당한다. 리랜드는 독일장교로 위장하고 베를린으로 침투하여 린다를 찾아내고 스위스로 데리고 나간다. 스위스 국경에서 독일군 검문에 걸려 총격전을 벌리면서 린다를 안고 탈출하던 리랜드는 적의 총에 맞아 쓰러지면서도 스위스 국경을 넘는데 성공한다.

프랑스의 브레따뉴 지방 사비니엥 백작의 성에서는 아들 오렐과 대녀인 셀린느와 사제의 사생아인 타르깽이 서로 형제같이 어린 시절을 보낸다. 성년이 된 이들은 1789년, 프랑스 혁명을 맞이하는데 셀린느만이 성에 남고 오렐은 미국으로 타르깽은 파리로 떠난다. 사비니엥 백작은 날으는 방법(글라이더)에 몰두하는데 셀린느는 둘을 기다리며 백작의 작업을 도와준다. 4년후, 공화주의자로 변모한 타르깽이 파리에서 돌아와 공화정의 군대를 징집하고 셀린느로 하여금 주민들을 교육시킨다. 한편 미국에서 돌아온 오렐은 참혹해진 프랑스를 보고 실망한다. 셀린느가 타르깽을 사랑하는 걸로 오해한 오렐은 질투심에 불타고 무단 정치에 공포를 느껴 대항아는 왕당파에 가담하지만 전쟁의 무의함을 느껴 셀린느에게 편지를 보낸다. 그리 셀린느도 그의 사랑이 진실임을 깨닫는다. 무수한 인명을 죽이면서까지 연적인 오렐을 끝까지 제거하려는 타르깽에게 셀린느는 총을 쏘고 성에 갇혀 감옥을 알려준다. 셀린느를 구한 오렐은 공화정 군대의 총격을 받으면서 아버지 사비니엥이 발명한 기계를 타고 하늘로 향해 오른다.

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare journey that leads to terrible consequences for his life, his career and for his wife and children.

During the WW2, a Swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy to increase self-sufficiency with produce. In his opinion, the steep mountain pastures are not suited for agriculture. Most of the villagers agree. However some begin to cultivate. Even after all his fellow farmers have given in and have started to plant cops, Tanner continues his opposition and ignores all letters and instructions. This leads to a series of reprimands, for instance, some of his hay is seized and his wife cannot buy at the local grocer's since the family won't comply with the government policy.

Even with good acting, pleasant music, and artistic photography, this "love-boat" story of romance is more like Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice on the streets of Zurich. The Zurich Alice is a flautist who plays for the passersby like many another street or Metro musician. While so engaged, she meets a VIP Russian flautist who has defected and is living in the city. He falls in love with her and as a gesture of his devotion decides to arrange her solo concert debut. Meanwhile, Alice easily figures out what his plans are and devises her own secret scheme. When the day of the performance arrives, her Russian heartthrob is in for a flattering surprise, sure to end his bachelor status. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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.

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan

A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.

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.

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.

Part satire, part drama, this movie tells the story of Anton Paulisch (Herb Andress), who has been living and working as an actor in Rome. When he hears that his mother is mortally ill, he returns to Munich to be at her bedside, but doesn't quite make it. He and sister Astrid (Elke Haltaufderheide) rediscover their friendship, though, as they go through a number of crises. Meanwhile, Anton makes an effort to find work in Munich, and runs headlong into the silliness and pretensions of the "New German Cinema" movement.

A fictionalized version of a military training fight.

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’

An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.