Emil Gyr

Au milieu de l'invasion nazie de la France en 1942, une jeune fille est évacuée vers la Suisse mais est toujours hantée par les terreurs dont elle a été témoin.

A few leagues from Seldwyla, in the Zurich countryside, two children, Sali Mantz and Vreneli Marti, form an inseparable pair of playmates. Unfortunately, their farming parents, who have always been friends, are at odds with each other over the purchase of an adjoining field.Sali and Vreneli don't see each other again until much later and fall in love, but their parents still hate each other fiercely. Despite everything, the young couple will try to live their forbidden love.

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.

Seldwyla, milieu du 19e siècle. Le marchand Viggi Störteler, qui a des ambitions littéraires sous le pseudonyme de Kurt von Walde, doit aller à Berlin pendant quatre mois. Störteler, se prend pour un poète. Marié à une femme simple dont l’ingénuité fait le charme, il ne se satisfait pas de l’amour pourtant inconditionnel qu’elle lui porte.