Herbert Leiser

Herbert Leiser

Born: June 17, 1941
in Näfels, Switzerland

Movies for Herbert Leiser...

The Only Ones
Title: The Only Ones
Released: December 14, 2017
Type: Movie
After a young management consultant involuntarily stumbles over the roots of his identity in Muotathal, he struggles just like a fatefully interwoven "gothic girl" to break out of the narrowness of the valley and make peace with the past.
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Little Mountain Boy
Title: Little Mountain Boy
Character: Giacomin
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A boy must brave deep winter snow to obtain an important family keepsake. Before he can even start this difficult journey he must first help his family survive financial ruin, rescue his beloved pet goat, and with his best friend, outwit a bratty bully who seems out to get him at every turn. Will he make it back to the village in time to celebrate the end-of-winter holiday of Chalandamarz?
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Der letzte Mentsch
Title: Der letzte Mentsch
Character: Mikos
Released: May 8, 2014
Type: Movie
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Clara and the Secret of the Bears
Title: Clara and the Secret of the Bears
Character: Simon
Released: June 5, 2013
Type: Movie
The balance of nature is in danger and only Clara and her friend have the heart to solve the secret of the bears and to break a centuries-old spell.
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Title: The Undertaker
Character: Aldo
Released: January 8, 2013
Type: TV
A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.
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Das alte Haus
Title: Das alte Haus
Character: Joseph Ernst
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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The Devil from Milan
Title: The Devil from Milan
Character: Herr Casutt
Released: September 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Sonia’s nightmare is never ending. Her super-rich husband Frederic is now locked in a psychiatric unit after he attempted to kill her. But her mother-in-law continues to make her life hell by controlling her every move. Getting a job at a wellness spa in the mountains comes at just the rights time. However, on arriving, Sonia quickly realises that the villagers are not particularly sympathetic to newcomers and mysterious things begin to happen, all of them strangely connected to the legend of the devil of Milan. But is it just her mind playing tricks on her? DER TEUFEL VON MAILAND is a thriller based on the novel by Swiss author Martin Suter.
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One Way Trip
Title: One Way Trip
Character: Pius
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Eight young people drive to the Swiss Jura region, food and tents in the trunk. It's autumn and high season for a magic mushroom that grows there - the reason for their trip. After a few problems they arrive at the desired location deep in the woods, the tents are set up, the mushrooms are collected and when it gets dark the party starts. Everything is fine until one of the youths wants to get beer and comes back with a blood-covered and smashed face. They don't know what happened but need to find help. As they discover that their car has a flat tire and their phones don't work, they seek shelter in a nearby farmhouse. But that's just where they were supposed to go. In a nerve racking countdown one after another gets killed by their dangerous haunters
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Die Käserei in Goldingen
Title: Die Käserei in Goldingen
Character: Hans Guntisberg
Released: December 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Title: Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Character: Matter
Released: September 23, 2010
Type: Movie
1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.
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Sonntagsvierer
Title: Sonntagsvierer
Character: Bruno Häggli
Released: May 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Emil, Bruno, Fritz and Dieter-Thomas are four fit pensioners and old friends. They want to refresh their friendship with a cozy golf weekend in the mountains. Having just arrived at the hotel, Emil confronts his friends with serious news: he is terminally ill and has decided to put an end to his life with a deadly pill here and now with his friends. Now he asks the men for nothing less than to support him. The responses to this request could not be more different.
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Verstrickt und zugenäht
Title: Verstrickt und zugenäht
Character: Walti
Released: March 28, 2010
Type: Movie
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Will You Marry Us?
Title: Will You Marry Us?
Character: Kari
Released: March 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Rahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn't believed in the so-called "love of her life" in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what it felt like to be in love. And that leads to even more problems, because Rahel is already married. And Ben would like to get married: by Rahel
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Hello Goodbye
Title: Hello Goodbye
Character: Neighbour
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
The film takes the viewer on a roller-coaster ride of emotions, evoking laughter and tears, hope and suffering alike. Melina is young and full of illusions. She has just fallen in love and ...
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Her Second Chance
Title: Her Second Chance
Character: Vater Sonja
Released: April 23, 2006
Type: Movie
After many years in jail, Sonjas returns to her home village where she takes up her fight for custody of her 8-year old son Tim. But neither the authorities, nor her in-laws, nor Tims foster parents will ever consider handing over little Tim to Sonja, a purported spouse killer. Sonja must bring light into her dark past if she is to win back Tim's love. Tobias Ineichen's film is led by Melanie Winiger, one of Switzerland's brightest talents.
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Tod eines Keilers
Title: Tod eines Keilers
Character: Porter
Released: February 5, 2006
Type: Movie
A crime comedy directed by Urs Egger.
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Steinschlag
Title: Steinschlag
Character: Josef Wyss
Released: May 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Hardly back from America in her home village, the young mountain guide Andrea Stamm is called to a rescue operation. The wife of the contractor Baumberger has an accident. A murder? The whole village mourns, but Andreas's father Robert Stamm can not believe in an accident. The former police officer, who was sent against his will in early retirement, is convinced that Baumberger killed his wife. After initial hesitation, Andrea gives credence to her father's suspicions and begins to investigate. The television movie Steinschlag is an exciting Swiss crime drama based on the novel by Emil Zopfi.
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Title: Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Character: Zirkuschef
Released: March 12, 1996
Type: TV
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Ludwig 1881
Title: Ludwig 1881
Character: Hesselschwerdt
Released: August 11, 1993
Type: Movie
In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef Kainz, to act out the scenes from a story which took place on the lake, at the actual locations.
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Children of the Open Road
Title: Children of the Open Road
Character: Paul Kessel
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.
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Dünki-Schott
Title: Dünki-Schott
Released: November 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Reimagining of the Don Quixote saga
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Fabian
Title: Fabian
Released: April 25, 1980
Type: Movie
Fabian is a 1980 West German film directed by Wolf Gremm. It is based on the novel Fabian, the Story of a Moralist (1931) by German author Erich Kästner. The film was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film receive a nomination.