The Death of the Flea Circus Director
With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss
wants to put the plague on stage. External circumstances and a lack of a
rising generation have forced him to suspend his prevailing passion, a flea
circus. As his financier tries to cause an epidemic through the new theatre
programme, believing that he can thus save overcivilized mankind, he fails
because of Ottocaro Weiss, who exchanges the illusion of theatre with reality...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1972 |
| Screenplay | Dieter Feldhausen |
| Production | Thomas Koerfer Film Ltd. |
| Photography | Renato Berta |
| Music | Ernst Kölz |
| Cast | François Simon, Paul Gogel, Norbert Schwientek, Janine Weill |
Joseph von Sternberg Preis Mannheim 1973, Cannes
Semaine Internationale de la Critique 1973, Mostra Internazionale del
Nuovo Cinema Pesaro, The London Filmfestival, Chicago Filmfestival, Perth
Film Festival, Film International Rotterdam, Filmfestival Teheran, San
Francisco International Film Festival, Filmex Los Angeles, Edinburgh International
Film Festival, U.A.M.
The Assistant
Joseph Marti, a jobless accountant, works for six
months at an inventor's house. At the beginning, he's confronted with everyday
work. But the more he finds out that his chief's projects don't make any
profit, the more Marti himself takes the control, trying to save what's
still left to be saved...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1975 |
| Screenplay | Dieter Feldhausen, Thomas Koerfer |
| Production | Thomas Koerfer Film Ltd. |
| Photography | Renato Berta |
| Music | Original music of the 19th and 20th centuries |
| Cast | Paul Burian, Ingold Wildenauer, Verena Buss, Nikola Weisse, Wolfram Berger, Hannelore Hoger, Tina Engel |
Cannes Semaine Internationale de la Critique
1976, The London Film Festival, Film International Rotterdam, Festival
Internacional de Cinema Figueira da Foz (Plaque d'Or), Internationales
Forum des Jungen Films Berlin, Perth International Film Festival, Semana
International de Cine de Autor Benalmadena, International Film Festival
of India New Delhi, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Warsaw Film
Festival, Filmpreis der Stadt Zürich und Qualitätsprämie
EDI
Alzire or the New Continent
Dead for 200 years and yet still very much alive,
Voltaire and Rousseau observe the troubles of a small groupe of young actors
who want to stage one of Voltaire's plays, called Alzire or the Americans...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1978 |
| Screenplay | Dieter Feldhausen |
| Production | Thomas Koerfer Film Ltd. and Filmkollektiv Zurich |
| Photography | Renato Berta |
| Music | Original Latin-American music |
| Cast | François Simon, Roger Jendly, Monika Bleibtreu, Verena Buss, Nikola Weisse, Hans Peter Korff, Rüdiger Vogler |
Chicago Filmfestival, Festival du Jeune Cinéma
d'Hyères, Filmfestival Florenz, Festival Internacional de Cinema
Figueira da Foz (Silver Award), Los Angeles (Filmex), Thessaloniki International
Filmfestival
The Passionate
This true story relates at first to the residence
of young Goethe in Wetzlar in 1772, describes his unrealisable love for
Charlotte Buff, the fiancée of his lawyer friend Kestner, and the
suicide of his friend Jerusalem later on. At this point, the movie leaves
behind the autobiographical elements and changes into fiction, which makes
Goethe suffer the sorrows of young Werther and transforms Charlotte into
Lotte...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1981 |
| Screenplay | Hans Christoph Buch, Thomas Koerfer |
| Production | Polyphon Hamburg |
| Photography | Thomas Mauch |
| Music | Ernst Kölz |
| Cast | Sunnyi Melles, Lutz Weidlich, Hanns Zischler, Paul Burian, Wolf Kaiser, Sigfrit Steiner |
Worldsale Goethe Institute Bonn (International)
Embers
Switzerland in World War II: Anna, a young Polish
refugee, comes into an armourer family. The same-aged son Andres finally
finds his longawaited playmate. Together with Andres and his beloved grandfather,
Anna organises the escape of a Polish internee. The grandfather risks his
life and Anna must leave the country. Forty years later, she returns....
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1983 |
| Screenplay | Thomas Koerfer, Dieter Feldhausen |
| Production | Cactus Film Zurich, prokino Munich and Thomas Koerfer Film Ltd. |
| Photography | Frank Brühne |
| Music | Peer Raben |
| Cast | Armin Mueller- Stahl, Katharina Thalbach, Matthias Habich, Sigfrit Steiner, Thomas Lücking, Agnes Zielinski, Krystyna Janda, Barbara Freier |
Mostra Internationale del Cinema Venezia 1983
(Official Competition), OCIC Award, Festival Internacional de Cinema Figueira
da Foz (Silver Award), Internationales Filmfestival Berlin / Deutsche
Sektion, Internationales Filmfestival Moskau, Chicago Filmfestival, Filmpreis
der Stadt Zürich und Qualitätsprämie EDI
Concert for Alice
Here is the story of a famous Russian flute-player
who emigrates to Switzerland. While desperately trying to find a job, he
meets Alice, a young and beautiful streetmusician. Enchanted and fascinated
by her and her playing, he pretends to be a rich patron...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1985 |
| Screenplay | Lev and Alexander Shargorodsky, Thomas Koerfer |
| Production | Condor Productions Ltd. |
| Photography | Martin Fuhrer |
| Music | Louis Crelier |
| Cast | Beate Jensen, Towje Kleiner, Anne- Marie Blanc, Erwin Parker |
Filmfestival Wien 1986, Filmfestival Brüssel
1987
All Out
At the beginning, there's a bank robbery - the plan
seems to be perfect: Angelo and Ciccio empty the bank while Paul waits for
his accomplices in the car. But their plan gets out of control, because
of two armed men who stand in their way. Paul gets away on time, Ciccio
is deadly wounded, and Angelo escapes with the money and Julia, the daughter
of the owner of the bank, as his hostage to Italy. A fatal love affair begins...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1990 |
| Screenplay | Thomas Koerfer, Joachim Hammann, Bernard Stora |
| Production | Thomas Koerfer Film Ltd., Stella Film Munich, Crocodile Films Paris |
| Photography | Lukas Strebel |
| Music | Jean-Paul Petit |
| Cast | Dexter Fletcher, Fabienne Babe, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Peter Fritz |
Cattolica Film Festival 1990 (Offizieler Wettbewerb),
Internationales Filmfestival Moskau, Internationales Filmfestival Kairo
Green Henry
The night before a duel, Green Henry reflects upon
his moving youth. The time was dominated by his early affection for his
cousin Anna, who suffers from an incurable sickness, and a sensual actress,
called Judith, who teaches Green Henry how to forget his first love...
| Director | Thomas Koerfer |
| Year | 1991 |
| Screenplay | Peter Müller, Thomas Koerfer, Barbara Jago |
| Production | Condor Films, Toro Films, Osby Films in Coproduction with SRG/ ZDF/ ORF |
| Photography | Gérard Vandenberg |
| Music | Bruno Coulais |
| Cast | Thibault de Montalembert, Florence Darel, Assumpta Serna, Matthias Gnädinger, Nadja Uhl, Dominique Sanda |
Calcutta International Film Festival, Internationales
Filmfestival Moskau