Screenplay: Richard Schweizer

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Montgomery Clift · Aline MacMahon · Wendell Corey · Jarmila Novotna

Plot A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy's mother,...

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Ewart G. Morrison · John Hoy · Ray Reagan · Luisa Rossi

Plot Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for...

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Heinrich Gretler · Elsie Attenhofer · Paul Hubschmid · Anne-Marie Blanc

Plot One of the most famous swiss films of the 1940s, based on a short prose text by Gottfried Keller. A comedy about misunderstandings and love letters.

Direction Franz Schnyder

Cast Freddy Karsten · Peter Arens · Barbara Bietenholz · Peter Ehrlich

Plot In exploring sex offences, particularly against children, this film reveals the inner workings of the Zurich police and INTERPOL as they pursue persons accused of voyeurism, rape, fetishism, sadism, and...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Toru Hirose · Akio Isono · Sojin

Plot This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however...

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Heinrich Gretler · Robert Trösch · Fred Tanner · Anne-Marie Blanc

Plot Switzerland in the 13th century: Shot in the middle of World War II, this classic film returns to the origins of Switzerland and turns about the problem of the small...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Elsbeth Sigmund · Heinrich Gretler · Thomas Klameth · Elsie Attenhofer

Plot Heidi is a little orphan girl who is taken by her aunt to live with her grandfather, who lives in a secluded cabin in the Alps. At first the old...

Direction Franz Schnyder

Cast Heinrich Gretler · Elsbeth Sigmund · Thomas Klameth · Emil Hegetschweiler

Plot Heidi lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps in the summer, and she and Peter play and tend the goats. In the winter, she stays with Peter's mother, and...

Direction Franz Schnyder

Cast Hannes Schmidhauser · Nelly Borgeaud · Peter Arens · Heinrich Gretler

Direction Franz Schnyder

Cast Liselotte Pulver · Hannes Schmidhauser · Heinrich Gretler · Emil Hegetschweiler

Plot Uli, the farm hand of the Boden farm, is a bawdy, careless, spendthrift fellow. Lectured by his master, he becomes aware that if he is to escape his abject condition,...

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Heinrich Gretler · Adolf Manz · Bertha Danegger · Armin Schweizer

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Josiane Hegg · Heinrich Gretler · Margrit Winter · Anne-Marie Blanc

Direction Hermann Haller · Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Paul Hubschmid · Heinrich Gretler · Robert Trösch · Max Werner Lenz

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Cornel Wilde · Josette Day · Simone Signoret · John Baragrey

Plot A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

Direction Leopold Lindtberg · Elizabeth Montagu

Cast Ralph Meeker · Viveca Lindfors · Yossi Yadin · Michael Medwin