Max Frisch

Stiller (2025)

James Larkin White is arrested on his arrival at the Swiss border. He is accused of being the missing Swiss sculptor Anatol Stiller. The missing man, with whom he is mistaken, is accused of being involved in the "Smyrnov affair". ...

Biographie - Un jeu (2022)

Graf Öderland (2021)

Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (2020)

Homo Faber (Trois femmes) (2015)

A man turning 50 (Walter Faber) narrates his liaisons with three women: Hanna, who was pregnant and left him many years ago in Zurich; Ivy, who broke up with him recently in New York; Sabeth who is 20 and whom he just met on a boat to Europe. Sabeth and th ...

Holocene (1992)

Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an old man, isolated from the outside world in a little mountain village in Ticino, Switzerland, who fights against oblivion. From books that he has there he cuts o ...

Voyager (1991)

April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Is it fate? ...

Max Frisch, Journal I-III (1981)

A "filmic re-reading" of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of Frisch – who was one of the greatest 20th century Swiss writers – nor a filmed adaptation of the novel. In ...

Biografija (1974)

Veliký hněv Filipa Hotze (1971)

Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1967)

Die chinesische Mauer (1965)

A gigantic masked ball is held at the court of the Chinese emperor Hwang Ti. The builder of the wall surrounding the vast land The builder of the enormous wall surrounding the vast country celebrates his victory over his last enemies and does not shy away ...

William Tell (1960)

Gessler, the Rütli Oath, the apple shot, the Hollow Lane: the deeds of Swiss national hero William Tell in his fight against tyranny and violence in 1291. Based on Friedrich Schiller's drama and Aegidius Tschudi's chronicle. ...

Max Frisch - Gespräche im Alter (1986)

Philippe Pilliod interviews Max Frisch in 1985/86. ...