Elisabeth Niederer

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the dark shadows (2022)

Youth psychologist Julia Egger causes a traffic accident, seriously injuring a man, and drives away in panic. Her explanation that she was deliberately forced off the road by an SUV initially sounds unconvincing to Borchert and Dominique, especially since ...

Parents (2020)

Two parents in Zurich think they have been doing everything right. Yet their teenage children disrupt their perfect family system until the parents move out themselves. The boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred. ...

Ellas Entscheidung (2016)

Ella and Marcus Herlinger desperately want to have a child. But Ella is a carrier of the incurable hereditary disease Duchenne, which her twelve-year-old nephew Lennart already has. Without the knowledge of her older sister Johanna, Ella tries to get pregn ...

Lina (2016)

The film takes us back in time, to a relatively recent yet forgotten period in history, when many women like Lina were forced to fold in the face of unfair and blinkered authorities. The victim of an administrative internment aimed at re-educating her afte ...

Umut Üzümleri (2013)

Liebe, Babys und ein großes Herz (2006)

Auf ewig und einen Tag (2006)

The Cloud (2006)

DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated. ...

Scharf wie Chili (2005)

Tino is a real Don Juan and he knows it. No woman can resist his charm including the fiancée of his brother. Right before the wedding he seduces her. Tino decides to seek professional help and joins a group for sex addiction treatment. For his surprise th ...

Leise Krieger (2004)

It takes time for Lukas to understand who the little boy in his room is. When Lukas listens to him one day, a journey into his inner world of memories begins. A man whom Lukas had long tried to forget is waiting in a deep cellar... Sometimes you have to fa ...

Wir bleiben zusammen (2001)

The parents of a talented 23-year-old pianist were killed in an accident on the way to her wedding to a career-oriented violinist. She tries to keep the family together and gets custody of her three underage siblings. Although her relationship breaks up an ...

Exklusiv (1999)

The wife of the publisher of the tabloid newspaper EXKLUSIV is shot in front of the editors building. JournaIist Mike Baertschi, employee of EXKLUSlV and his photographer Bernhard Kauter are witnesses of this attack. ...

Sexy Lissy (1997)

Aus Heiterem Himmel (1991)

On June 22, 1991, photographer Chäschpu misses the decisive goal in the Swiss Cup final. His entire life, he has successfully stumbled through his permanent provisional existence. On this day, Graszena memorizes the drinks menu of her new employer. She ta ...