Soundtrack: Robert Blum

Direction Fred Zinnemann

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

Synopsis 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, the sole surviving member of his family, searches refugee centers...

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

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

Synopsis 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 the Italian underground.

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

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

Synopsis 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 Willy Ackermann · Friedrich Braun · Pierre Dagmar · Paulette Dubost

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

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

Synopsis 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 country against a big power: Resist or obey?

Direction Luigi Comencini

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

Synopsis 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 man is surly and unfriendly, but the sweetness of the...

Direction Franz Schnyder

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

Synopsis 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 they attend school. One day a letter arrives from Heidi's...

Direction Erwin Leiser

Direction Franz Schnyder

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

Direction Franz Schnyder

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

Synopsis 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, he must reform.

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Hansjörg Felmy · Luise Ullrich · Barbara Rutting · Fred Tanner

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

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

Direction Aleksander Ford

Cast Charles Régnier · Louis V. Arco · Gert Westphal · Margot Trooger

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

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

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast Heinrich Gretler · Heinz Woester · Irene Naef · Adolf Manz

Synopsis After a party in a clinic, a patient found consciousless and the director is missing. A film noir entering in the world of psychiatry. If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that...

Direction John Fernhout

Synopsis A short film noting the 1960 era defensive capabilities of Switzerland including soldiers, tanks, and various other equipment.