Emil Hegetschweiler
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 15, 1887
Deathday: October 01, 1959
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
1958-06-09
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Overview: The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-06-09
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Café Odeon
1959-03-28
Café Odeon
Overview: A "milieustudie" about a girl going to the famous Cafe Odeon and trying to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-28
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Uli the Tenant
1955-12-22
Uli the Tenant
Overview: Uli has been the tenant of the "Glunggen-farm" for two years. His wife Vreneli gave him two children and the couple is happy. But this year, the harvest looks bad and his landlord calls in the rent, as the old man urgently needs money to satisfy the demands of his son and stepson. Desperate to make ends meet, Uli fraudulently sells a cow knowing that she does not produce any milk. He is pursued in court but is acquitted. But then, the buyer curses him... and disaster promptly strikes.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Uli der Knecht
1954-10-19
Uli der Knecht
Overview: The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing, and the comic interludes surprisingly subtle and believable for a Swiss film. The no-star cast doomed Uli Der Knecht from the start so far as American distribution was concerned. It was another matter in Switzerland, where the film was one of the year's top moneymakers. Uli der Knecht was based on a novel by Jeremias Gottbelf.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-19
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The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet
1958-12-26
The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet
Overview: The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Polizischt Wäckerli
1956-08-10
Polizischt Wäckerli
Overview: Wäckerli, policeman in the small Swiss village of Allenwil, is in trouble. His son Ruedi is unhappy in his apprenticeship and spends way too much money. And now 10'000 francs have been stolen from the bourough's community fund...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-10
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Das Gespensterhaus
1942-08-28
Das Gespensterhaus
Overview: In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the middle of the night - scary. Since then, no one dares to live there.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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Fräulein Huser
1940-06-01
Fräulein Huser
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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Füsilier Wipf
1938-06-05
Füsilier Wipf
Overview: A hairdresser is being recruited during World War I by the Swiss military where they turn this soft civilian into a 'real man'.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-06-05
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Palace Hotel
1952-04-14
Palace Hotel
Overview: 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 world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-04-14
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The Zürrer Bakery
1957-09-25
The Zürrer Bakery
Overview: Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-25
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Taxichauffeur Bänz
1957-06-25
Taxichauffeur Bänz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-06-25
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Madness Rules
1947-04-17
Madness Rules
Overview: If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert (Madness Rules) was co-adapted for the screen by Lindtberg from a novel by Friedrich Glauser. Heinrich Gretler stars as Police Constable Studer, the hero of several of Glauser's most popular works. This time, Studer must solve the murder of the director of an insane asylum -- and it's not (surprise, surprise) the most likely suspect, manic-depressive patient Herbert Caplaun. For box-office purposes, Matto Regiert stresses a romantic subplot involving Caplaun and nurse Irma Wasem.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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Oberstadtgass
1956-09-27
Oberstadtgass
Overview: Realist melodrama set in Zurich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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Der 10. Mai
1957-10-18
Der 10. Mai
Overview: Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland, which hadn't experienced a war since the 14th century, hurriedly fortified its borders with battalions of inexperienced soldiers. The panic, confusion and isolated acts of courage which occurred on that fateful day are re-created in this Swiss docudrama. The story is "personalized" by concentrating on a fugitive German soldier (Heinz Reincke) who falls in love with the Swiss girl (Linda Geiser) who shelters him. Produced on a bare-minimum budget, Der 10. Mai is impressive more for its sincerity and raw energy than for its actual cinematic merits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-18
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Jä-soo!
1935-06-01
Jä-soo!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Wie d'Warret würkt
1933-12-01
Wie d'Warret würkt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Kleine Scheidegg
1937-02-11
Kleine Scheidegg
Overview: A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-11
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Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe
1940-11-30
Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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Children of the Mountains
1958-10-15
Children of the Mountains
Overview: Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager housekeeping money. Some people ask themselves why she has married that poor devil since she could have married into money. But she stays to the keen wood carver. He works out fantastic objects of tree roots, but villagers jeer at him. The family dreams to get a cow of their own to be more independent. One day Josef scrapes together all savings and goes to the cattle market. Due to lack of money, a clever farmer palms a skinny, sick cow off on him. The children Hansli and his friend Ludmila take the cow to their heart. Ludmila even lends her name to the animal. Some time later Josef falls from a mountain and is unable to work for a long time. So a decision is made that cow Ludmila which produces no milk has to be slaughtered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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