Stephan Bloetzer
Actor · b. 1904 · Ferden, Lötschental, Kanton Wallis, Schweiz
Stephan Bloetzer was born on 20 September 1904 in Ferden, Lötschental, Kanton Wallis, Switzerland. He is known for Die Herrgottsgrenadiere (1932), Mountain Man (1934) and White Majesty (1933). A non-professional, this Swiss actor from the Lötschental in Kanton Wallis was discovered by producer August Kern to play one of the main parts of his movie "Die Herrgottsgrenadiere". Actually a mountain guide, ski instructor and restaurant owner, he went on acting in a few movies, mostly produced by Kern, for a whole decade.
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Movie9.0DramaWesternIn the middle of the mountains around the Lötschental is a lonely village that is exposed to the forces of nature. A state of excitement arouses when an international mining company discover a gold vein and acquired mining rights.
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Der Kegelkönig
1942 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe title means "The last postillion (stage-coachman) of the St.Gotthard-pass". A company of select people joins the horse-driven coach for crossing the center of the Alps over the traditional path high on the mountain valley. It is the time of railways as the means of modernization. A tunnel is going to be built. The new fast way would render useless the small transport industry from which local people had made their living. The great mountainous landscape is the background for the conflicts which arise between rich and poor, local traditionalists and foreign modernizers. The daughter of a local, who is opposed against the tunnel, would like to get engaged with a tunnel engineer, but is also coveted by a local favored by her father.
Der letzte Postillon vom St. Gotthard
1941 · 2 votes
Movie6.7DramaThe mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. There is a French version of the film, titled 'Un de la montagne', shot the year after with the same script but with different actors and by a different director.
Movie7.5ComedySeptember 1939 in Estavayer: An anti-aircraft battery of the Swiss militia takes up position near a hotel on the border. The daughter of the house is adored by all the soldiers. During a nighttime air battle in which a "foreign" aircraft is shot down, one of the soldiers is killed. Only the girl can comfort the overwhelmed soldiers; it is only an emergency during a storm that brings them together.
S'Margritli und d'Soldate
1940 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.