Peter Wyssbrod

Peter Wyssbrod

Born: January 1, 1927
in Biel, Bern, Switzerland

Movies for Peter Wyssbrod...

A Forgotten Man
Title: A Forgotten Man
Character: The Colonel
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a terrible mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. He went through the war, but will he survive the peace?
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Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich
Title: Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich
Character: Monsieur Richard
Released: October 16, 2016
Type: Movie
After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.
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Murder Behind The Curtain
Title: Murder Behind The Curtain
Character: Lydias Ehemann
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
The 90-year-old mystery writer Lydia Walliser is suffering from writer’s block. Although she presents herself to the public as witty and cosmopolitan, her family bears the brunt of her more abhorrent traits. For Nick, her grandson whom she grudgingly accommodates for the weekend, it means: no mobile phone, no TV, no noise. Nick fears that these might be the worst days of his life. But then he notices strange things happening at the house next door and may have even witnessed a murder. When he and his grandmother begin to investigate, they embark on the adventure of the lives.
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The Foster Boy
Title: The Foster Boy
Character: Doctor
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.
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Where the Grass Is Greener
Title: Where the Grass Is Greener
Released: December 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport...
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Late Bloomers
Title: Late Bloomers
Character: Ernst Bieri
Released: October 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
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Pestalozzi's Mountain
Title: Pestalozzi's Mountain
Character: Hofstetter
Released: March 17, 1989
Type: Movie
In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.
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Title: Sabbath
Character: Blumer
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: TV
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FRS - Das Kino der Nation
Title: FRS - Das Kino der Nation
Character: Heinrich Pestalozzi
Released: December 28, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Josef Ebnöter
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.