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Swiss film and television director (1953–2020)
Urs Egger, 2015
Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in
Bern – died 18 January 2020 in
Berlin) was a
Swiss film and television director.
From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss
Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the
Australian
Cinema Papers as a correspondent from
Los Angeles, responsible for reporting on the film industry. He visited the
American Film Institute to become a director.
Egger died in January 2020 in Berlin, Germany, after suffering a long illness.
Select filmography
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Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
- The Tourist (1996, TV film)
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Teenage Wolfpack [
de] (1996, TV film) — remake of
Teenage Wolfpack
-
Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on
Opernball
-
Epstein's Night [
de] (2002)
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Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers [
de] (2004, TV film) — based on
The Return of the Dancing Master
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An die Grenze [
de] (2007, TV film)
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Ten: Umbra Mortis [
de] (2008, TV film)
-
Kennedy's Brain [
de] (2010, TV film) — based on
Kennedy's Brain
-
Murder Is No Fairy Tale [
de] (2010, TV film) — based on the novel Brother Grimm by
Craig Russell
-
Residual Risk [
de] (2011, TV film)
-
The Other Child [
de] (2013, TV film)
- Krokodil (2013, TV film)
-
Madame Nobel [
de] (2014, TV film)
- Letter to My Life (2015, TV film)
- Gotthard (2016, TV film)
- Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)
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