Anne Marie Blanc Movies

A nearly forgotten accident (or was it murder?) takes on new life when a 50th year class reunion is convened at the remote Alpine mountain chalet of one of the students. During an excursion in the mountains many years before, just after their graduation, one of the least popular of students fell to his death from a high waterfall. We find out that the hostess of this reunion was the dead boy's lover and was pregnant with his child. In this Agatha Christie-type story a series of deaths ensues, some accidental, some not, en route to a surprise ending. The cast of this Swiss production includes nine of the their most prominent native actors, including international star Ursula Andress, who had never before appeared in a Swiss film. Anne-Marie Blanc, who plays the hostess, is one of the great stars of Swiss theater. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This drama is set within the international corporate world and centers on a highly principled executive for an international drug-manufacturer who just prior to his retirement decides to blow the whistle on his dishonest colleagues who have involved themselves in the illegal South American drug trade. His company retaliates and in the end manages to destroy the executive's personal and professional life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This is the final film in a trilogy by Bernhard Giger that examines a man's struggle to find and defend his personal identity. In Winterstadt, a young wanderer discovers himself through his interactions with people in a small town, and in Der Gemeindeprasident, a mayor fights hard to maintain his personal and public ethical standards. Now in this drama, a young man vacillates between abiding the law and a life of crime. Tom (Andreas Loeffel) has been coerced into informing on his underworld buddies by a tough, aggressive police inspector (Bruno Ganz). Although he did not volunteer the information, Tom hides both his criminal past and current connections to the police from his girlfriend of the moment. His main concern is to live the best life he can regardless of what happens to others; he does not question his own identity as long as he has the amenities he wants. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

A cold and unfeeling society is the target of this conventional, aloof drama by Swiss director Beat Kuert. Herr Meier (Hans Madin) decides to take a break from his retired life in Frankfurt, so he has his driver Peter (Michael Maassen) take him to Switzerland to the villa of an old friend. When Meier arrives, he is greeted by a frigidly proper housekeeper (Anne-Marie Blanc) and no friend. The longer he stays, the stranger the environment becomes, until the housekeeper and her adult son and daughter seem downright menacing. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

The sketchy plot and cliched dialogue in this uneven drama about rescue in the Alps are more than balanced by the daredevil, visually evocative, and challenging footage of men and planes converging on the victims of a mountaineering accident. Several people from various parts of Europe have joined a particularly challenging tour that takes them through dangerous areas in the Swiss Alps. Everything is going well until they are trapped in a glacier and some are killed, others are injured, and they need help to get out alive. As the search parties and planes approach, the danger is far from over. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Swiss-German leading actor Paul Hubschmid was still going by his Hollywood-engendered moniker of Paul Christian when he starred in Palace Hotel. The scene is a lavish Swiss resort hotel, where a multitude of subplots wend their way through the corridors. The principal characters include Kaethe Gold as an Austrian chambermaid who pines for her long-missing son; Gustav Knuth as a very proper butler who loses his inhibitions on New Year's Eve; and, of course, Paul Christian, cast as an amorous waiter. Most of the film was lensed on location in St. Moritz. Palace Hotel was the first dramatic feature from the Swiss documentary firm Gloriafilm. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this touching drama, set in the midst of the Swiss mountains, a philandering husband and his idealistic young wife battle it out for the rights to the White Cradle Inn, her familial estate. The man spends much of his time messing with a maid at the inn. His wife spends time helping the village orphans whom she allows to stay in the manor. She becomes especially bonded to one of the little children. She wants to adopt him, but her husband refuses to allow it unless she is willing to give him all rights to the inn. Her love for the child causes her to give in. Later, the husband and the lad are mountain climbing. They are trapped in a sudden storm and the husband sacrifices his own life to save the boy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide