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- DirectorAndreas FontanaStarsFabrizio RongioneStéphanie CléauCarmen IriondoYvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.
- DirectorMichael SteinerStarsLarissa AemiseggerGaby BachofenThomas BaechlerA cinematic time capsule with over 1,400 hours of submitted material from all regions of Switzerland gives unknown insights about the life of Swiss people in the politically and socially turbulent summer of 2019.
- DirectorKepa SojoStarsJon PlazaolaMaggie CivantosIngrid García JonssonA fictional Castillian village but located in Basque Country tries become part of Switzerland after a surprising discovery.
- DirectorFriedrich FeherStarsKarl KienlechnerFriedrich FeherMargarete WilkensAn early silent film about William Tell who is known for being the great archer that lead a rebellion in Switzerland against tyranny.
- CreatorPetra Biondina VolpeStarsAnnina WaltMax HubacherDimitri Stapfer1945. Finally, there is peace in Europe. In Switzerland too, a whole generation breathes a sigh of relief as it faces a new and hopeful future. Peacetime, although long awaited and promising, also holds unforeseen challenges.
- DirectorCarlos IglesiasStarsCarlos IglesiasJavier GutiérrezNieve de MedinaSpain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live with Mart'n's parents in a basement apartment that comes with their job as superintendents of the building. Encouraged by Marcos, his friend and co-worker, Martin decides to emigrate to Switzerland. The whole family has to admit that for the time being this is the most promising plan. Unable to obtain a work contract from the Swiss Consulate, Martin and Marcos decide to go anyway, pretending they are tourists to get past the border police. Pablito will experience drastic changes in a short period of time: his father's departure, a new way of life in a different country with a different environment and learning another language. But afterwards, in Switzerland, they will face new experiences which will allow them to live with renewed happiness.
- StarsAntonio BanderasToni BertorelliValentina LainatiThe story of a young Benito Mussolini. It is the drama of a man whose lust for power unleashed a reign of terror - the chilling account of how an ambitious young schoolteacher became the ruthless dictator of Italy.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsBen KingsleyLeslie CaronDominique SandaMarch 1917. World War I is already three years in. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Germany and Sweden to St. Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise known as Lenin. Two senior officers support thenrevolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel, there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take him back. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations.
- DirectorDominique Othenin-GirardStarsThomas JouannetÉmilie DequenneNoémie KocherHenry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant, and he soon gets passionate about senseless cruelties of war while helping out with what he learned from grandpa. Cécile, part of a godsend shipment of Swis staff and supplies, becomes his right hand and true love. After French troops take the village and reinstate senseless abuses, his letters home, published in Geneva by family friend journalist Samuel Lowenthal, whose newspaper gets attacked too, the unprecedented shocking first-hand truth about war cruelty, start enough public commotion to make his plans eventual turn true in the form of the now worldwide indispensable, strictly neutral humanitarian last resort for all in need, the International Red Cross, named after the symbol Dunant devised by painting in blood the Christian symbol French and Austrians had in common as Catholic nations to safely evacuate from Castiglione.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsEvgeniy MironovFedor BondarchukMaksim MatveevHaving dedicated his life to the preparation of the revolution in the Russian Empire, Vladimir Lenin, living in exile in Switzerland, desperately seeks a way back to Russia to take control.
- DirectorMarkus ImhoofStarsTina EngelHans DiehlMartin WalzDuring World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsZdzislaw MrozewskiMarek WalczewskiHenryk BistaSet at the historic moment of rebirth of Poland after World War I. The newly organized National Assembly elected Gabriel Narutowicz, a professor returning home from Switzerland to enter public life, as the first President in the history of Polish Republic. The film shows the turmoil leading to Narutowicz's election by a National Assembly divided between Polish Nationalists and the minorities, comprising one third of the population. A few days after the election the President was assasinated by a fanatic Nationalist while opening an art exhibit.
- DirectorStephen CrismanStarsLewis BlackKate BurtonMariel HemingwayDetails the support given by Switzerland and Swiss banks to the Nazis during WWII and post war attempts of some of Nazis' victims to recover asserts.
- DirectorSergio HerenciasStarsPriska BaumannHans BächliOlga DinnikovaThe Lake of Constance in Switzerland seems to be contaminated with nuclear caesium. NZZ reporter Marc Kaufmann got to work to find out more about it and follow the trail to Prague.
- DirectorFelix KarrerStarsTheodora BühlmannWerner BühlmannHelene SoguelA chapter in the history of the Huguenots: The exodus of French Protestants to Switzerland with re-enacted scenes featuring 'Die Tösstaler Marionetten' company's puppets.
- DirectorMischa HedingerThe film looks behind the scenes of the welfare state and reveals the discussions marked by power and helplessness between experts and persons concerned.
- DirectorRichard DindoNiklaus MeienbergDuring World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S. fueled a controversy about collective guilt, double standards and the role of Switzerland in the war.
- DirectorDaniel von AarburgStarsCarl LutzAgnes HirschiGyörgy KonrádCarl Lutz, an Appenzell diplomat and second-in-command at the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, saved tens of thousands of persecuted Hungarian Jews from death during World War II. His humanitarian action is considered the greatest civil rescue operation of Jews during the Holocaust. Lutz negotiated directly and shrewdly with Adolf Eichmann, the deviser of the Holocaust. During this rescue operation, the married Vice-Consul fell in love with one of his protégés. After the end of the war, he divorced his wife, married his beloved in Budapest and moved with her and her daughter to Berne. Instead of being thanked by his country, he was chided for excess of authority and splashing out on his expense account. Until his death, Lutz fought bitterly and vainly for his rehabilitation.
- DirectorBryan BoorujyIn Budapest, Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz conducts one of the largest Jewish rescue operations in the history of World War Two.
- DirectorJon McCandlessStarsBrad PomeranceHost Brad Pomerance delves into Swiss Jewish life, historically and modern day, with visits to Basel, the birthplace of Zionism, the Swiss "Shtetl" towns of Endingen and Lengnau, and Zurich, the city with the largest Jewish population in Switzerland.
- DirectorAlain GsponerStarsStefan KurtMaximilian SimonischekAnatole Taubman1938. 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.
- DirectorGabrielle AntosiewiczA young Jewish woman from Switzerland goes on a quest to find a kosher husband.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsAlbane GuilheLouise MarleauLucie LaurierA Swiss Jewish artist who is grieving her father, moves to Montreal and forms a friendship with a child psychiatrist. While creating an installation in an abandoned warehouse, she confronts her past and is increasingly drawn to her friend.
- DirectorCyril SchäublinStarsAlisa MiloglyadovaElisaveta KrimanOlga BushkovaIn late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
- DirectorPedro De EchavePablo AzorinStarsOtto SkorzenyLuis María PardoJosé María Blanco CorredoiraAustrian Waffen-SS Lieutenant-colonel Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite commando. His participation in daring military actions such as the rescue of Benito Mussolini in the Apennines or covert "Operation Greif" at the Battle of the Bulge, among others, made him famous. In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US Army. After 3 years in a POW camp, Skorzeny escaped to a safe haven in Franco's Spain. What was he up to during the long 25 years he spent in Spain? This documentary has gained access to its very own files "The Skorzeny papers" that picture a determined character who took to the dealings of the Cold War like duck to water: active Nazi ratline mastermind, gun runner, advisor to Egyptian President Nasser, freelance covert operations agent for CIA and Mossad and other western intelligence services. The after WWII, "Cold War", account of the life and deeds of one of the most charismatic and enigmatic characters of the 20th century.