Erwin Parker Movies
- 1987
A few years ago, when he was on the police force, Georg Walz accidentally shot and injured a woman while chasing a Middle-Eastern bad guy. The woman was brain-damaged for life, and Georg was overcome with guilt at this and was also forced into early retirement. To occupy his time, he has been keeping tabs on a neighbor of his who closely resembles the woman he shot. In addition, she has a Middle-Eastern boyfriend, so maybe she can help him connect the clues to the bad guy he failed to catch earlier. When the ex-policeman and the pretty girl become good (but platonic) friends, a number of incidents occur which make their bond even closer. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rolf Hoppe
- 1986
Even with good acting, pleasant music, and artistic photography, this "love-boat" story of romance is more like Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice on the streets of Zurich. The Zurich Alice is a flautist who plays for the passersby like many another street or Metro musician. While so engaged, she meets a VIP Russian flautist who has defected and is living in the city. He falls in love with her and as a gesture of his devotion decides to arrange her solo concert debut. Meanwhile, Alice easily figures out what his plans are and devises her own secret scheme. When the day of the performance arrives, her Russian heartthrob is in for a flattering surprise, sure to end his bachelor status. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Beate Jensen, Towje Kleiner, (more)
- 1983
Mauro Melzer (Ruediger Vogler) is an artist whose canvasses are much admired, but who feels his mental stability is wobbly, and so he asks a psychiatric clinic to check him in until he can return to normal. His behavior is, in part, patterned after the famous Swiss writer Robert Walser who was committed for schizophrenia yet who kept on writing and seeing visitors in his confinement. The psychiatrists are not as convinced as Melzer is about his insanity, and they agree that a local gallery should do a retrospective of his work -- they even buy one of his canvasses for the clinic. Melzer is not happy about any of this, and on the evening when a cocktail gathering in the gallery is celebrating the opening of his retrospective, Melzer is out with a prostitute in a dark alley of the city. From his viewpoint, different forms of art sold for money are not so different after all. When Melzer returns to his old apartment, he meets the new tenant, a fairly straightforward young lady -- and the beginnings of a saner Melzer start to dawn. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rüdiger Vogler
- 1973
In this comedy, the quiet life of an airplane pilot living in Switzerland is terribly disrupted when his sister gets married for the fourth time and bequeaths him her 250-pound St. Bernard. The bachelor and the big slobbery dog do not immediately become friends. Later they bond when the St. Bernard saves the bachelor's life during an avalanche. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1963
This German melodrama is loosely based on an Edgar Wallace story. A group of stockholders holds a crucial meeting at an old manor house. Blackmail rears its ugly head when one of those present unearths a few corporate skeletons. Then the murders commence, as the stockholders are strangled one by one by an unknown assailant. Nylon Noose stars Dietmar Schoenherr (here billed as Richard Goodman) and Olga Summerfield. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
