A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. Read More »
Tag Archives: Switzerland
Black for Remembrance (1995) Noir comme le souvenir
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Read More »
The Bus (1975) Otobüs
A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away. Read More »
Green Mountain (1990) Fredi M. Murer, Fredy Breitschmidt, Marcos Buser, Peter Hug
A few months after Tchernobyl’s disaster, some inhabitants of a small village in Switzerland are told by the radio Read More »
A Flame in My Heart (1987) Alain Tanner, Myriam Mézières, Benoît Régent, Azize Kabouche
The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African Read More »
The Damned / La caduta degli dei (1969) Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich. Read More »
Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Alain Tanner
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva Read More »
Thelma (2001) Pierre-Alain Meier, Laurent Schilling, Pascale Ourbih, Natalia Kapodistria
Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desperately in need of cash for child support is intrigued Read More »
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) Jan Svankmajer, Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová
Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes. Read More »
Brass Target (1978) John Hough, Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Max von Sydow
General Patton tries to transfer the German gold stock to Frankfurt. But someone foils his plan. The military police begin to find the guilty… Read More »