Hanspeter Müller

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioural patterns of both time periods are more alike than one might think.

24-летний тамильский беженец Мараван — талантливый повар, который работает помощником в шикарном ресторане Цюриха. Эта должность не соответствует его высокому уровню владения экзотической кухней Шри-Ланки, но всё бы ещё ничего, если бы однажды парня не уволили. К счастью, коллега Андреа распознаёт талант беженца и объединяется с ним, чтобы открыть кейтеринг-сервис под названием «Love Food», призванный составлять «любовные меню» и готовить для пар, которым нужна реанимация отношений.

Раймунд Григориус, швейцарский профессор древних языков, спасает португальскую женщину от самоубийства и находит у нее книгу, написанную португальским автором Амадеу ди Праду, о сопротивлении диктаторскому режиму Антонио ди Оливейра Салазара. Полностью поглощенный книгой главный герой посвящает свою жизнь изучению португальской истории в целом, и в часности работам Амадеу ди Праду.

Kari Tellenbach was born with a cleft palate. His mother takes care of him like a bird that has fallen out of the nest. As a young man Kari decides to become a barber and despite his handicap he wins the heart of Annemarie with his humour, charm and sensitivity. His happiness seems almost complete – but Annemarie’s middle class parents have already made other plans for their daughter.

Между 1860 и 1960 годами, тысячи детей из бедных семей или осиротевших детей в Швейцарии, были взяты на воспитание в приёмные фермерские семьи, где они часто подвергались жестокому обращению и эксплуатировались в качестве дешевой рабочей силы. Этих детей так и называли «Приёмыши».

A single mother of three children lives a chaotic and not very wealthy life in which her oldest daughter tries to manage everything and wants to find a decent guy for her mum.

Швейцарские Альпы, 1975 год. Сразу после самоубийства местного священника в горной деревне Трепунт появляется загадочная девушка. Ведёт она себя крайне странно, не разговаривает и к тому же до смерти боится крестов и распятий, благодаря чему жители начинают считать её ведьмой. Единственным, кто встаёт на защиту девицы, становится полицейский Ройш. Вскоре в Трепунте происходит несчастный случай с женой мэра, в котором вновь оказывается замешана гостья. После этого сдерживать недовольство суеверной толпы Ройшу становится всё сложнее.

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a stylist on the bicycle and in life, and a huge heartthrob. Koblet had a meteoric rise and won the Giro d'Italia in 1950. Once he had reached the zenith of his career, Koblet was put under pressure by overly ambitious officials and ended up ruining his health with drugs. In 1954, he married a well-known model and they became a celebrity dream couple. After his athletic career ended, Koblet began to lose his footing. Threatened by bankruptcy, he crashed his Alfa into a tree.

Leni, in her mid-fifties, runs the local bakery with her son in a small Swiss town. When she falls in love with a much younger Argentinean dance teacher, her world is turned upside down.

1936 год. Северная стена Айгера — последняя «нерешенная проблема» Альп, за решение которой сам Гитлер лично обещает вручить золотые медали Берлинской олимпиады… Есть три знаменитые классические стены северной ориентации — Гранд Жорас, Матерхорн, Айгер. Первым — в 1931 — пал Матерхорн. В 1935 была пройдена стена Гранд Жораса. Но именно Северную стену Айгера прозвали «Стеной смерти».

The film takes the viewer on a roller-coaster ride of emotions, evoking laughter and tears, hope and suffering alike. Melina is young and full of illusions. She has just fallen in love and ...

Фильм «Marmorera» основывается на реальных событиях, связанных с одноименной граубюнденской деревушкой, затопленной в ходе строительства плотины с целью обеспечения бесперебойного снабжения Цюриха электроэнергией. Одновременно в картине используются элементы старых швейцарских легенд о русалках и прочих обитателях водных пучин.В результате зритель получает возможность посмотреть весьма элегантно снятый, напоминающий, особенно финалом, раннего Бергмана периода «Земляничных полян», триллер, построенный по принципу «десяти негритят», когда сторонники строительства плотины один за другим, самыми изощренными способами, оправляются в мир иной…

A film about kids with little else to offer apart from a well honed body, an overabundance of hormones and a high from their last line. Teenagers Nia and Pulpo hang out at the disco where Nia has sex with a girl he meets there, Foxy. On the way home, Nia and Pulpo are attacked by Spirit, Foxy’s ex. Pulpo is badly beaten up but the police intervene, and Nia ends up in a youth detention centre. He makes plans to escape in order to wreck revenge on Spirit, an eye for an eye, and part of his plan includes meeting Nicole, an attractive young lawyer.

Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.

A crime comedy directed by Urs Egger.

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland's economy and to the country's morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when the airline's fleet was grounded on 2 October 2001. "Grounding" is set during the last days of the doomed airline, and tells the story of manager Mario A. Corti's unhappy fate, the last, unlucky CEO at the traditional airline company, as well as of all those nameless people who lost almost everything in the maelstrom of Swissair's downfall: their job, home and their belief in Switzerland.

Finally adult and free? You wish! His father sees him as a future boss of the family-owned printing firm and his mother only wants the best for him. Sebastian can’t take it any more. On his eighteenth birthday he announces his departure to Geneva to work as an au pair in a family, looking after children and doing the household chores. To improve his French, of course! His father flips his lid, his mother is distraught. Only his sister Kathrin thinks her little brother is really cool… Very few men would be up to the challenge!

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....

Groundbreaking psychiatrist and author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dedicated her career to working with the incurably ill. In this intimate documentary filmed near the end of her life, Kübler-Ross relates her life story, from childhood to her final years. Friends, family members and colleagues weigh in with insightful observations and share their memories of this remarkable woman whose innovative concepts helped spawn the field of thanatology.

A Colorado sheriff and his teenage son investigate a bizarre kidnapping, ultimately leading them on the hunt for a legendary Swiss criminal.

Fredi M. Murer wrote and directed this Swiss drama about a family with a missing child. The only explanation seems to be kidnapping, but no ransom note arrives. Police inspector Anatol Wasser (Hanspeter Muller) soon faces an elaborate mystery: a dozen Swiss children vanish with no indication of any pattern -- other than the fact that they all lived near lakes. Is organized crime responsible, or does the answer lie in mystical realms? Shown at the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.