Direction: Daniel Schmid

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Lucía Bosé · Maria Schneider · Lou Castel · Ingrid Caven

Plot Violanta rules a lush peasant village peacefully, but has herself a violent past which she keeps secret. When the secret threatens to emerge, she takes poison.

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Ingrid Caven · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Annemarie Düringer · Adrian Hoven

Plot Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Plot Using early family, tourist and publicity films (between 1905 and 1930), Schmid articulates the pleasures of filming - the play of amateurs, visiting Switzerland, both in front and behind the...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Sara Scuderi · Della Benning · Irma Colasanti · Giulia Scaramelli

Plot Shortly before his death, Giuseppe Verdi created the "Casa di Riposo" (quite literally, "rest home") in Milan for retired opera singers. For many years, the house was funded by royalties...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Sami Frey · Carlos Devesa · Ingrid Caven · Dieter Meier

Plot "If Stanley Kubrick set nightmares in the Overlook Hotel, Daniel Schmid has only the happiest magical memories to animate his grand hotel nestled in the Swiss Alpes. Hors Saison is...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Ingrid Caven · Voli Geiler · Peter Chatel · Igor Josza

Plot A satire on 19th-century class relations that’s also a veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Ingrid Caven · Peter Kern · Peter Chatel · Béatrice Stoll

Plot This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Bernard Giraudeau · Lauren Hutton · Jean Bouise · Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Plot North Africa in the 1930s. Julien, a young, bored diplomat meets Clothilde, whose husband is on a mission in Siberia. He becomes infatuated with her, and soon ends up spending...

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Michel Voïta · Christine Boisson · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Jean Bouise

Plot A journalist is intrigued by the mystery surrounding the murder of a 17th century Swiss hero.

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Elena Panova · Geraldine Chaplin · Martin Benrath · Ulrich Noethen

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Bulle Ogier · Kira Nijinski · Bob Rafelson · Jean-Claude Brialy

Plot It had to happen: 'In NOTRE DAME DE LA CROISETTE' Schmid turns his abundant eye on that loved and despised Mecca of European film life, the Cannes International Film Festival....