Ingold Wildenauer Movies
- 1996
The orderly life of a quiet civil servant living in a nameless Central European police state becomes a chaotic nightmare after he accidentally sees masked men dressed as harlequins murder the minister of defense. After witnessing such a horrible crime, the naive Koska immediately goes to the police. As a result, Lubitsch, the murderous minister of justice -- who has designs on becoming the country's new dictator and so wants to blame the defense minister's death on terrorists -- targets poor Koska for death. The first assassination attempt fails and Koska flees to his neighbor and only trusted friend Marlene, an enigmatic ballet instructor who helps him survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1993
In 1973, (Helmut Berger starred in one of Luchino Visconti's last masterpieces, a filmed biography of the Mad King of Bavaria (1845-1886) entitled Ludwig. In that film, the king's loss of control over his life was seen as resulting from a tragic disparity between the desires of an admittedly peculiar and neurotic man and the needs of the state of Bavaria, which he sold to the nation of Germany in order to raise funds to build his famous castles. In the present film, $Helmut Berger again plays Ludwig. In the story, Ludwig has travelled from Munich to Switzerland with a handsome actor (Max Tidof) who is part of his personal entourage, in order to hear him recite Schiller's "William Tell" in an appropriate setting. Unfortunately, the recitation is a disaster, and the aesthetic monarch is sorely disappointed. Meanwhile, his secretary of state is desperate to get him to pay some attention to more practical matters. Despite plentiful allusions in other quarters to the king's homosexuality, in this film no such inference or imagery appears. Instead, the king is maddened purely by an overstrong attachment to exalted aesthetic notions and ideals. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helmut Berger, Max Tidof, (more)
- 1991
In 1922, a weather observer and his wife (Mathias Gnädinger and Susanne Lothar) lived in a remote cabin high in the Swiss Alps. As this drama begins, they are being joined by a third person, an Austrian (Peter Simonischek) who coveted the job the Swiss man had won in this bleak location. Not only that, but he also has his eyes on the Swiss man's lovely wife. The Austrian has charm, so he wins some hospitality from the couple. The three live together for a little while, but the rivalry between the two men soon erupts with tragic consequences. This drama is based on a true story. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Susanne Lothar, Mathias Gnädinger, (more)
- 1986
In this frank and open drama about a 1941 Swiss government decree and a man who disobeyed it, the nature and strength of individual protest is luminously etched. Otto Machtlinger (who died shortly after this film was completed from an already-diagnosed fatal illness) plays Tanner, the man who refuses to give up his grazing land for farming purposes. Because imports to Switzerland were cut off at the beginning of World War II, the Swiss government was worried about food supplies. Their solution was to mandate the expansion of farm land, and when Tanner refuses to go along because he knows his grazing pastures are no good for farming, he starts a confrontation with the government which seems impossible to win. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Otto Machtlinger, Renate Steiger, (more)
- 1983
In this curious film that certainly must have had a very restricted audience, Peter Fischli and David Weiss dress up in a bear and rat costume and wander through the Swiss countryside, talking and making in-jokes on nature and ecology. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Fischli, David Weiss, (more)
- 1982
A village on the border between Austria and Bavaria will totally disappear in a puff of smoke unless the villagers -- a sorry group of sexual, ethical, mental, and emotional misfits -- can put a stop to the determined arsonist. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gerhard Dorfer, Enzi Fuchs, (more)
- 1981
Felix Stamm (Emil Steinberger) works at a match-making company that uses videotapes to bring together prospective couples. His gets more personally involved in his job than he would like, as he and his girlfriend Regula Koller (Franziska Oehme) find their own relationship affected by the people he meets through his work. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hilde Ziegler
- 1978
Kneuss (Ingold Wildnauer) is a free spirit, not tied down to anyone or anything. However, when an old friend of his gets him involved in a complicated scheme involving drugs and gangsters, which requires that they pretend to be Mormons, things get more involved and more complicated very quickly. This crime drama is based on the Swiss best-seller by Beat Brechbuehl. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ingold Wildenauer, Renata Schroeter, (more)
- 1976
At the end of the 19th century, an educated white-collar worker finds himself in the employ of an inventor. As he is neither a "worker" nor an "owner," his position in the inventor's household and in the world at large is equivocal. Despite the difficulties he encounters, he tries to hold onto his job in order to support his family, but is eventually fired. This Swiss movie is based on a novel written around 1900 by Robert Walser. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Burian, Ingold Wildenauer, (more)
- 1976
This movie is based on a book by Otto F. Walter. In his childhood, the young man in this story is made mute by seeing his father murder his mother and then pass it off as an accidental fall down a staircase. Years later, while working with his father clearing rock falls from roads, he re-lives the earlier experience. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ingold Wildenauer
