Walburga Gmür

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.

Unemployed and homeless actors following the dream of finding the future in South America. The manager Osvaldo Curtis tricks the group of colorful and failed artists to apply for a special visa overseas.

Dans une maisonnette isolée des montagnes suisses vivent Heidi et son grand-père. Quelque temps plus tôt, la foudre était tombée sur la maison des parents de Heidi qui avaient trouvé la mort. Chaque matin, le garçonnet qui veille sur les troupeaux du village situé au bas de la montagne vient chercher Heidi pour l'emmener avec lui sur les cimes couvertes de neige et dans les prairies pleines de fleurs et d'animaux sauvages. Tout ceci forme le petit monde dans lequel Heidi passe ses jours. Par amour pour sa petite fille, le grand-père est prêt à se réconcilier avec les villageois auxquels l'oppose une vieille querelle. Mais une tante de Heidi, qui vit dans la grande ville, vient chercher sa nièce dans l'intention d'en faire la compagne d'une petite paralytique, fille de parents très fortunés. Son grand-père s'oppose à ce projet. Pour toute réponse, Heidi est enlevée par sa tante à laquelle certains villageois ont prêté main forte…

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.

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.

A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for cheap - with the landlord hoping they'll drive away their new neighbors whom he wants out of his building.

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.

Schaggi Streuli was not his real name. Born Emil Kägi, he had little luck in the first 30 years of his life. As the sixth child of an alcoholic and also a divorce goof, it wasn't easy for Schaggi Streuli. After that he tried unsuccessfully as a pickle in Ticino and a butcher offshoot. His only consolation, acting. And as it turned out later; also his calling.

Matthias is the illegitimate son of a factory worker. He lives as an indentured child labourer at his dictatorial aunt’s remote guesthouse. The only thing he knows in life are hard work and hard punches. After a sudden death, the unhappy boy finds the opportunity to make his way to his mother. In collaboration with SRF, Cinémathèque suisse, Memoriav and Praesens Film, ZFF once again presents a freshly restored version of a Swiss cinema classic. This 1941 literary adaptation is an almost forgotten jewel of Swiss film history that offers an impressive insight into Eastern Switzerland’s embroidery industry. Born in 1930, a later chapter of the main actor Röbi Rapp’s life was portrayed in the multi-award winning docufiction DER KREIS.