Robert Hunger-Bühler

The Traitor (2024)

Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to escape a suffocating environment that annihilates any kind of creative or artistic impetus, Ernst sells information ...

The Investigation (2024)

Peter Weiss' monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, ...

Der Zürich-Krimi: Borchert und die Spur der Diamanten (2023)

Borchert hates it when people lie to him. From his very first meeting with murder suspect Xavier Schliemann, he has doubts about the man's sincerity. The smart diamond dealer is accused of shooting his ex-business partner. Instead of testifying to Captain ...

Adopting Audrey (2022)

An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the bitter medicine (2022)

Thomas Borchert stands by his conviction as an "unlicensed lawyer" never to neglect humanity when representing a client. This distinguishes him from his friend and colleague Reto, who, as a victim, witness, and legal counsel, is accused of always being "mo ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the time to die (2021)

Thomas Borchert, the unlicensed lawyer, and his colleague Dominique Kuster take on the case of Anna Sutter, who wants to contest the will of her father, watchmaker Ludwig Sutter, following his unexpected death. Shortly thereafter, Anna Sutter's half-brothe ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the icy death (2021)

When Borchert receives an anonymous message that a certain Franz Brosi is innocent, law firm boss Dominique can hardly believe it. After all, Brosi was her first client as a public defender a few years ago and had actually confessed. The two are investigat ...

Apnoe (2020)

Grey house facades roll by like monstrous walls. Numerous identical windows, creating lines of lights as they pass by steadily. The bike courier Michel pushes through crowded streets of a dystopian city of the future. On behalf of the monopoly Clinair, he ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the dead in the lake (2020)

Thomas Borchert is already looking forward to his goddaughter Jenny, who is completing a practical semester in Albania. At the airport, as part of the baggage check, half a kilo of hashish is seized from her, which Jenny claims she did not know anything ab ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the fatal error (2020)

Lawyer Dominique Kuster can feel a professional success for herself when her underage client Stefan, the oldest of three foster children, receives mitigating circumstances. After the court hearing, however, she found out that the foster father Christian Hu ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the deadly trap (2020)

Borchert wants to toast three years of successful cooperation with his superior Dominique Kuster and her father, Reto Zanger. The evening is canceled because Reto Zanger is called to Geneva at short notice for a mandate. His daughter is therefore supposed ...

1989: A Spy Story (2019)

Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA. ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the original sin (2019)

Borchert and his boss Dominique can't believe it: Captain Furrer, respected top investigator of the Zurich Criminal Investigation Department and fair opponent of the unorthodox lawyer duo, is now himself under urgent suspicion of murder! Corrupt colleagues ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the murderous greed (2019)

The lawyers Borchert and Kuster are investigating a case involving a young student who has come under the crosshairs of a terrorist group. ...

Vakuum (2018)

Amidst the preparations for her 35th wedding anniversary, Meredith is surprised by the discovery that she is HIV-positive. Only her husband André could have been the carrier of the virus. ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the last hope (2018)

Anton Schneider says goodbye to his wife Luise in tears and dies. Schneider was seriously ill with multiple sclerosis and was diagnosed by neurologist Dr. Hoffer medically treated. Luise Schneider reports the doctor and accuses him of incorrect treatment o ...

The Invisibles (2017)

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible. ...

Orphan (2017)

A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine. ...

Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen (2016)

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert's case (2016)

After many years abroad, lawyer Thomas Borchert makes a surprise return to his hometown of Zurich. He wants to gain some distance in a trailer on his family's once stately estate, and escape the clutches of the German authorities. His former employer, the ...

I Am Here (2015)

Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true. ...

Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures. ...

The Last Will (2014)

To fulfill the last will of his mother, the young JAKOB ADLER needs to meet his biological father, who is inmate of a forensic psychiatric hospital for murdering his own brother for over 25 years. Jakob wants to talk to the doctor in charge DR WEISS before ...

Zurich (2014)

Terminally ill, Lea surprises her family with her wish to die, consciously and controlled, on her own birthday. Her mother tries everything to prevent the plan. But things turn out differently. Tragic and dignified. ...

The Grüninger File (2014)

1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order. ...

Millions Can Walk (2014)

Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometre protest march from Gwalior to Delhi. How can one fight for one's rights without using violence? With ...

More Than Honey (2012)

With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — more ambitious than any previous work o ...

Kill Me (2012)

A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide. ...

The City Below (2010)

A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable fascination for ...

Trio (2008)

In Anita's dreams, her father Martin is larger than life - even after he has died. Is she the only one seeing the strange things that happened to her family in the days before the funeral? Or is it really Martin's look she feels on her neck when she sits a ...

Tod eines Keilers (2006)

Gottfried Binder, a simple employee in the pathology department of the University Hospital Zurich, is suffering from lung cancer and does not have long to live. He is convinced that the fatal disease was actually intended for someone else. For his superior ...

Giacomo Casanova (2004)

Le sacre du printemps (2004)

God, depicted as a black woman in her kitchen, creates new life and experiments: Dr. Bardot, a brain surgeon overwhelmed by chaos; Esther, mourning her husband; and Lucia, a young girl seeking revenge. Her hands place them in a city, where a solar eclipse ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (2001)

Unabridged production of Goethe's Faust Ⅰ by Peter Stein's Faust Project. ...

Dichterliebe (2000)

In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann's song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and reality blur. The chosen setting – a night club in the centre of Berlin – creates the intimate, dark salon ...

Born in Absurdistan (1999)

It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, it ...

Playboys (1998)

A group of men shoot their mouths off in a pub. Their animated talk is all action-packed yarns and, of course, about women. ...

Alkestis (1993)

Bingo (1990)

Bingo and Sturzi became friends in prison and have big plans. After their release, they both want to turn their backs on a life of crime and emigrate to Brazil. When Sturzi is released from prison six months after Bingo, he discovers that his friend is sti ...

Geblendeter Augenblick - Anton Weberns Tod (1986)

Pasolini Directs His Death (1985)

Psychoanalytic study of the artist and social critic, Pier Paolo Pasolini. ...

Weht die Angst, so weht der Wind (1983)

Fragmented stories about the big city, loneliness and the need to communicate. ...

Karambolage (1983)

Judit is up to her neck in art studies and the elitist art community but chucks it all to pursue a successful career as a billiard professional -- not exactly a likely alternative in real life, but certainly more lucrative. Just as she is finally at the a ...

Angst (1983)

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter. ...

Pasolini Directs His Death (1985)

Psychoanalytic study of the artist and social critic, Pier Paolo Pasolini. ...