
Walo Lüönd
Actor · 1927 – 2012 · Zug, Switzerland
Movies24
Movie6.2DramaRomanceThomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
Movie6.6DramaKarl Tellenbach, called "Dällebach Kari", was one of Bern’s legendary characters at the beginning of the 20th century. Born with a strong hare lip which left him disfigured and gave his voice a peculiarl nasal tone, he devoted his entire life trying to get people to laugh with him instead of at him. Ultimately, his despairing at ever becoming accepted as a fellow man coupled with unrequited love made his life tragic, culminating in his suicide at age 54. His jokes are still well known today.
Dällebach Kari
1970 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceThis romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
Movie6.8CrimeThrillerStrange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
- Movie8.0Drama
Im Schatten einer Großstadt
1965 · 1 votes
Movie4.8RomanceAdventureThe young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He falls in love with her, unaware that she is the daughter of the Irish king.
Movie4.7DramaRomanceThe Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. From a meeting with the Spanish royal couple, he hopes media attention and a popularity boost. He does not suspect that his closest confidant Pfiff, of all people, is intriguing against him in order to come to power himself. But he does not even shy away from misusing his family for his own purposes. Soon, the president has to fight not only for his political position, but also for his marriage.
Movie10.0DramaThe action takes place in a central German town in the 1920s. A Jewish factory owner is accused of murdering his accountant. The German nationalist investigating judge, who is determined to have a Jewish perpetrator, still sees Blum as the perpetrator even when evidence of the actual murderer, a former Freikorp fighter, is found. The Social Democratic court president from Berlin sends a criminal investigator to tear apart the judge's chain of evidence.
Affäre Blum
1962 · 1 votes
Movie6.9ComedyWilli Schulze is a car mechanic. Together with Paul, who escaped from an orphanage, he runs a garage. During the testing of a car, Willi finds out the brakes aren't working that good. A fatal accident can just be prevented. He tries to hitchhike home and gets picked up by American election expert Willy Schneider. Together they also get an accident and both lose their memory. The police assumes Schulze is the election expert and rapidly he turns into the pivot in a stone-hard election-contest.
Movie6.4ComedyDramaIn this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti (Walo Luond), but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's eccentricities very well, and regard him as a crackpot. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread. Unfortunately for Jakob, the military have already come up with the same invention: the tank. The discovery finally breaks him, and he is quickly shuttled off to an asylum.
- Movie9.0Drama
Summer 1938: renowned Viennese surgeon Professor von Benda is summoned by Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart to attend the Evian Conference on Jewish refugees. Disguised as a loyal Nazi physician, von Benda’s “mission” is to propose that participating nations purchase German Jews for 250 Reichsmark each, ostensibly saving them from deportation. Over ten days in Evian-les-Bains, von Benda navigates tense negotiations with diplomats and relief workers, confronting the moral abyss behind his government’s plan. As alliances form and falter around him, he watches the fates of refugees - and of Europe itself - unfold without judgment, bearing witness to a tragedy that history cannot forget.
Die Mission
1967 · 1 votes
Movie6.3AnimationFamilyPumuckl meets the blue Klabauter to learn magic. But he has bad intentions for the little goblin. Nevertheless, Pumuckl still finds enough time for his funny pranks. Will he survive his new adventures?
Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter
1994 · 5 votes
Movie4.7ComedyMunich with a housing shortage. Mona is given notice to leave the apartment: personal use. The landlady's son, a new "doctor", is to move in. Without an apartment, Mona's boyfriend Thomas feels unable to continue the relationship. After all, he knows a "nice condominium" (in which a girl already lives!). In her desperate search for an apartment, Mona meets lawyer Wolfgang, who wants to help her take legal action against the owner's need. But not everything is as it seems...
Tapetenwechsel
1984 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieA recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
1965 · 1 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceWithout knowing it, Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention. It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world. From a height, this land looks like a piece of felt, from close up like a clean and tiny park. The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks. Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years, are childless, and live on the 16th floor of a new building. Thanks to their various crises, they have got to know each other somewhat better, but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity. On Friday, August 12th 1977, a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country. The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast. The authorities order a ban on information, but those concerned break their imposed silence. On Sunday evening, it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of "dress rehearsal" for a real emergency. Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention - but now they are conscious of the fact.
Movie7.0DramaA small farmer's struggle for survival against the odds.
- Movie8.0Comedy
Die Rache des Jebal Deeks
1963 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Die Liebe des Jahres
1959 · 1 votes
Movie6.7ComedyRoni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his mother's appartment in an old people's home, continuing to believe firmly that his day in the limelight will come. One day Serge Grätzer, the director of the old people's home, discovers Roni, and makes him help out with the work. Serge then decides to take a hand in Roni's career, embezzling money to launch the budding comedian. Once again however success eludes Roni. In the end Serge decides to fulfil his own secret longings to be on the stage. This leads to a row between the two men. Despite a reconciliation, they never again appear together on the stage. And when Serge's embezzlement is discovered he has to flee with the police at his heels and the home has to be closes. In the end, Roni persuades Mr. Klein, an eccentric old man who likes to play the stock market, to save the home with the millions he has stashed away.
Movie5.3ComedyCafé Oriental
1962 · 3 votes
- MovieDrama
Movie6.2HorrorBased on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.
Movie7.0RomanceComedyFranz Engi returns to his hometown after being away for 30 years. A lot of things have changed in that time. There are only few families with children left in the village and that is why the school is about to be closed down. Franz decides to save the school and teacher Eva's job in a very unusual way....
Sternenberg
2004 · 3 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Aging Duke of Altair, a charming widower, plans a third marriage and enlists his son Edgar to choose among three noblewomen. Unexpectedly, Perpetua, young, spirited daughter of the late stewardб returns after a decade, instantly captivating both father and son. As their affections collide, the Duke realizes he cannot stand in his son’s way. In a moment of wise selflessness, he withdraws from Perpetua’s pursuit and instead courts Rosabel Fleming, honoring both tradition and his heir’s happiness.
Venus im Licht
1960 · 1 votes
Series21
TV6.2DramaCrimeTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
TV8.0CrimeDas Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
Das Kriminalmuseum
1963 · 3 votes
TV6.3ComedyDramaFreunde fürs Leben
1992 · 3 votes
TV6.5Action & AdventureThe adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Auf Achse
1980 · 18 votes
TV6.5CrimeMysteryEurocops
1988 · 2 votes
- TV9.0Crime
Krimistunde
1982 · 2 votes
TV5.9DramaComedyLiebling Kreuzberg was a television series on ARD, which was sent in five seasons with a total of 58 episodes the first time from 1986 to 1998. The scripts of seasons one through three and five were from Jurek, of his friend Manfred Krug wrote the role of idiosyncratic Berlin attorney Robert favorite on the body, the fourth season was written by Ulrich Plenzdorf. Director Heinz Schirk, Werner Masten led and Vera Loebner. Producing Series transmitters were the SFB, the NDR and WDR. The music of the first season was. Hans-Martin Majewski, in the later seasons of Klaus Doldinger.
Liebling Kreuzberg
1986 · 8 votes
- TV9.0Drama
Justitias kleine Fische
1988 · 1 votes
- TV10.0Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Operation Phoenix - Jäger zwischen den Welten
1997 · 1 votes
TV5.4FamilyDramaHotel Paradies is a German television series.
Hotel Paradies
1990 · 7 votes
TV8.2ComedyA Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city.
Monaco Franze
1983 · 13 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaHappy Holiday
1993 · 1 votes
TV7.0CrimeVon Null Uhr Eins bis Mitternacht
1967 · 1 votes
- TV9.0Drama
Engadiner Bilderbogen
1974 · 1 votes
- TV7.0Drama
Recht oder Unrecht
1970 · 1 votes
- TV9.0MysteryDrama
Overnight, nothing changes for Leonie and Tom Sauter: their four-year-old daughter Salomé has vanished without a trace. When a ransom demand arrives, the extortionist turns out to be an opportunist who has nothing to do with the kidnapping – but the man is fatally hit by a train during the money exchange. Tom, now suspected of murder, decides to flee. Together with private investigator Lüthi and journalist Ulla Merz, the Sauters try to find Salomé.
- TV7.0Drama
Air Albatros
1994 · 1 votes
TV10.0FamilyMeine Frau Susanne
1963 · 2 votes
- TV3.3Drama
Matchball
1994 · 3 votes
TV7.0DramaDie Direktorin
1994 · 1 votes
TVCrime