Urs Egger

Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.

Urs Egger, 2015

From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Australian Cinema Papers as a correspondent from Los Angeles, responsible for reporting on the film industry. He visited the American Film Institute to become a director.

Egger died in January 2020 in Berlin, Germany, after suffering a long illness.

Select filmography

• Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
• The Tourist (1996, TV film)
• Teenage Wolfpack [de] (1996, TV film) — remake of Teenage Wolfpack
• Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on Opernball
• Epstein's Night [de] (2002)
• Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers [de] (2004, TV film) — based on The Return of the Dancing Master
• An die Grenze [de] (2007, TV film)
• Ten: Umbra Mortis [de] (2008, TV film)
• Kennedy's Brain [de] (2010, TV film) — based on Kennedy's Brain
• Murder Is No Fairy Tale [de] (2010, TV film) — based on the novel Brother Grimm by Craig Russell
• Residual Risk [de] (2011, TV film)
• The Other Child [de] (2013, TV film)
• Crocodile (2013, TV film)
• Madame Nobel [de] (2014, TV film)
• Letter to My Life (2015, TV film)
• Gotthard [de] (2016, TV film)
• Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)

External links

• Urs Egger at IMDb
• Urs Egger at the Swiss Film Directory