Emil Hegetschweiler

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

A "milieustudie" about a girl going to the famous Cafe Odeon and trying to make ends meet.

The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A hairdresser is being recruited during World War I by the Swiss military where they turn this soft civilian into a 'real man'.

The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed....

Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.

Oscar Bänz is a solid, middle-class taxi driver and widower. He loves his daughter Irma with all his heart. In order to provide for her, he has not...

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert...

Realist melodrama set in Zurich. In the old town district, people are concerned about Mäni, the child of a toilet attendant, who is growing up...

Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland,...

Provincial shop owner Jakob Stäubli and his wife Frieda are looking forward to celebrating Christmas together with their daughter Nelly. But Nelly...

The story revolves around the confusion that arises when a supposed gold discovery in Valais divides the village community. The plot combines...

A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.

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...

Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager...