Urs Egger

Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.

Urs Egger, 2015

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)
  • Die Halbstarken (1996, TV film) — (Remake of Teenage Wolfpack)
  • Opernball (1998, TV film) — (based on Opernball)
  • Epsteins Nacht (2002)
  • Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers (2004, TV film) — (based on The Return of the Dancing Master)
  • Das jüngste Gericht (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)
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