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Urs Egger

Urs Egger

Swiss film and television director (1953–2020)


Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.

Urs Egger, 2015

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

  • Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
  • The Tourist (1996, TV film)
  • Teenage Wolfpack [de] (1996, TV film) — remake of Teenage Wolfpack
  • Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on Opernball
  • Epstein's Night [de] (2002)
  • Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers [de] (2004, TV film) — based on The Return of the Dancing Master
  • An die Grenze [de] (2007, TV film)
  • 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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