Anne-Marie Blanc

La petite Gilberte (2019)

Anne-Marie Blanc became a symbol for an entire generation 60 years ago with her role as "Gilberte de Courgenay". Who is this woman who has given countless theater and film characters a face and a soul over the decades? What highs and lows did she experienc ...

Im Namen der Gerechtigkeit (2002)

The idyllic tranquility of a mountain village is disrupted one day by a deliberately triggered avalanche. No one can leave the village. The perpetrator, Reto Lauenstein, is himself a villager. He threatens to bury the entire village under a series of avala ...

The Volcano (1999)

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor. ...

Anna Goldin, the Last Witch (1991)

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently throu ...

Zimmer 36 (1988)

Fred is a journalist who investigates the death of a man in room 36. He interviews the man's widow and her deranged mother for clues as to how the man died in a hotel room that is rented by the hour. Also under suspicion is a stranger named Becker who live ...

Broken Silence (1988)

Fifty years after graduating from school, Senta von Meissen invites eight former school friends to a class reunion at her castle. The table is set for ten people. One place remains empty: Teddy, the hostess's former school sweetheart, died in an accident o ...

Abschiedsvorstellung (1986)

A classical who-dunnit-detective-story in an unusual setting: In the retirement-home for aging stage-artists "Ewige Rampe", an overly engaged doctor discovers what seems to be a murder by poison. The victim is the only inhabitant of the home who was not on ...

A Song for Europe (1985)

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 jour ...

Concert for Alice (1985)

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 str ...

The Unburdening (1983)

In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an inner desire for a passionate existence, while she lives a dull life at her grandmother's country home. The grandmother recalls ho ...

Violanta (1978)

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta. ...

Riedland (1976)

Der Scheingemahl (1974)

Ein Abend, eine Nacht, ein Morgen (1973)

Die Auserwählten (1971)

At the end of the seventies, 29-year-old Petra Grust starts her job as a biology teacher at the famous Odenwaldschule. But soon Petra is confronted with the disconcerting reality. Teachers and teachers of the two sexes crawl together in the shower, young p ...

Hotel Royal (1969)

Diebelei (1969)

The Blonde from Peking (1967)

Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris. ...

Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965)

Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom. ...

The Wild Men of Kurdistan (1965)

After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin t ...

Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister (1965)

Mademoiselle Löwenzorn (1965)

Der Gefangene der Botschaft (1964)

A group of Siberian farmers seek refuge in the American Embassy in Moscow because they are being persecuted in the Soviet Union due to their religious beliefs. For political reasons, the ambassador wants to send the people away, which comes to the attentio ...

Der Belagerungszustand (1963)

A comet drops from the sky and causes a stir in Cadiz, Spain. A nihilistic drunk called Nada announces that very bad things are imminent. A herald gives orders that it is punishable to mention the comet. ...

Via Mala (1961)

A godless sawmill owner makes his family's life so hellish that he has to be killed. ...

Gäste auf Woodcastle (1960)

Der Prozeß Mary Dugan (1960)

SOS - Gletscherpilot (1959)

Glacier pilot Hermann Geiger flies over a four-thousand-meter peak in the Valais Alps and observes a glacier collapse. The next day, three rope teams climb through this glacier to Dent Blanche. However, Dr. Gruber, accompanied by his wife, a young engineer ...

Little Friends (1954)

At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at t ...

Roman eines Frauenarztes (1954)

Hoheit lassen bitten (1954)

Mit siebzehn beginnt das Leben (1953)

I'm Waiting for You (1952)

A teenage girl is stranded by a storm on a small North Sea island, where she and a young teacher fall in love and conceive a child. Back on the mainland, with help from her aunt and a family doctor, she gives birth and returns to finish school, unaware tha ...

Palace Hotel (1952)

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 ...

Gefangene Seele (1952)

Das Kuckucksei (1950)

White Cradle Inn (1947)

This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants to adopt a French orphan and he doesn't. ...

One Does Not Die That Way (1946)

In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is ...

Marie-Louise (1944)

The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous breakdown, she is given comfort and shelter by a wealthy family. Unfortunately, living in the lap of luxury makes ...

Matura-Reise (1943)

The film follows a group of 14 Swiss girls during and after their final exams. It shows their little worries, joys, and conflicts during a time of transition from youth to adulthood. ...

Landammann Stauffacher (1941)

Switzerland in the 13th century: Shot in the middle of World War II, this classic film returns to the origins of Switzerland and turns about the problem of the small country against a big power: Resist or obey? ...

Gilberte de Courgenay (1941)

Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers during the First World War, and remembered most of their names. She was still a teenager when the war began, ...

The Abused Love Letters (1940)

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... ...

Sergeant Studer (1939)

A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals. ...