- Source: 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)
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)
Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)
External links
Urs Egger at IMDb
Urs Egger at the Swiss Film Directory