Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.
Urs Egger | |
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.jpg) Urs Egger, 2015 | |
| Born | March 9, 1953 |
| Died | January 18, 2020 (aged 66) |
| Occupations | Film director, television director, and journalist |
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
edit- Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
- The Tourist (1996, TV film)
- Teenage Wolfpack (1996, TV film) — remake of Teenage Wolfpack
- Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on Opernball
- Epstein's Night (2002)
- Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers (2004, TV film) — based on The Return of the Dancing Master
- An die Grenze (2007, TV film)
- Ten: Umbra Mortis (2008, TV film)
- Kennedy's Brain (2010, TV film) — based on Kennedy's Brain
- Murder Is No Fairy Tale (2010, TV film) — based on the novel Brother Grimm by Craig Russell
- Residual Risk (2011, TV film)
- The Other Child (2013, TV film)
- Crocodile (2013, TV film)
- Madame Nobel (2014, TV film)
- Letter to My Life (2015, TV film)
- Gotthard (2016, TV film)
- Shillings from Heaven (2018, TV film)
External links
edit- Urs Egger at IMDb
- Urs Egger at the Swiss Film Directory
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