Ettore Cella

Bobby Jucker's soap business is on the brink of collapse. The resigned manufacturer expects to go bankrupt soon. So he doesn't mind letting his wife take the reins and putting on an apron himself. Clara Jucker is tired of being a housewife anyway. Bobby is already gloating over his wife's failure. But Clara turns out to have a talent for business, and instead of impending bankruptcy, her husband now has to cope with his wife's success. What makes the situation even more unbearable is that Clara seems to get along very well with her new assistant, Binggeli-Braun. Bobby Jucker's envy is now compounded by jealousy toward his supposed rival. A fight is inevitable.

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Franz Engi returns to his hometown after being away for 30 years. A lot of things have changed in that time. There are only few families with children left in the village and that is why the school is about to be closed down. Franz decides to save the school and teacher Eva's job in a very unusual way....

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18-year-old Rafael is determined to conquer the world as a musician. "Life is a game," he says, but unexpectedly, it turns into a bitter reality. How much freedom is allowed?

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In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.

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Constable Studer of the Bern cantonal police is stubborn and gnarled. Because of his nature, he has few friends. He has this in common with the murder victim: James Farny was known by everyone as "The Chinese". The man had traveled the world and now he has been found shot dead in the village cemetery: was it murder or did he kill himself? He had the gun in his hand. Studer doesn't believe it was suicide...

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Kneuss is an eccentric. He has been hired by his childhood friend Schnaffelmann as a consultant in his advertising agency. During a visit to Schnaffelmann's home, he recognizes his childhood sweetheart Cäcilie Bucher in Schnaffelmann's wife Cécile, and the old familiarity between Kneuss and Cécile, who is frustrated in her marriage, quickly returns. Kneuss realizes that Schnaffelmann is using the advertising agency to cover up his activities in the drug trade.

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