Urs Egger
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[]
- Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
- Teenage Wolfpack) (1996, TV film) — (Remake of
- Opernball (1998, TV film) — (based on Opernball)
- (2002)
- The Return of the Dancing Master) (2004, TV film) — (based on
- (2008, TV film)
- Kennedys Hirn (2010, TV film) — (based on Kennedy's Brain)
- Wolfsfährte (2010, TV film)
- Krokodil (2013, TV film)
- Gotthard (2016, TV film)
- Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)
External links[]
- Urs Egger at IMDb
- Urs Egger at the Swiss Film Directory
Categories:
- 1955 births
- 2020 deaths
- German-language film directors
- Swiss film directors
- Swiss television directors
- Swiss people stubs
- European television biography stubs
- Mass media in Switzerland stubs
- Director stubs