Movies: Roger Jendly

Following a bet, Simon has no choice but to participate in the Morat-Fribourg race. The preparation and the race itself reveal painful memories that have been buried for far too long....

A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy....

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A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week...

On the last voyage of the Italian ocean liner EUGENIO C. from Genoa to Rio de Janeiro, Zurich-based ethnologist Roger Wiedmer meets Brazilian Zaira Gelbert. He wants to repeat the journey to the Indians of the Amazon described by Claude Lévy-Strauss ...

A man is consumed by an increasingly all-consuming madness that drives him to identify with Adolf Hitler. His insanity pushes him to physically imitate the dictator, and even to build a bunker with the intention of spending the rest of his days there...

Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees....

An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to ...

Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Al...

Criminals Rayner and Simon organize a diamond heist, but are outsmarted by Jean and Rémy, two aspiring crooks....

Throughout the late 19th century and in the early part of the 20th, Russians of a wide variety of political persuasions contemplated various forms of revolution. Throughout the same period, they often had to seek asylum in other countries. This movie...

A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there....

Lulu is released from prison. Determined to fulfill her dream, find her kids, those of her best friend who remained locked up and go very far. The former inmate will do everything to carry out the "heist" that will get her the money....

Two friends drive through the Balkans in two American cars to sell them in Cairo. At times, their friendship is put to the test when a woman they have taken with them tries to exploit them for her own "business" purposes....

Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the mountains discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gain...

Returning from work, Louis finds a letter from his wife saying their marriage is over. He’s just lost his mother, and now he’s lost his wife as well. Shaken, he tries to understand: why the illness? Why the separation?...

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A former Yugoslav resistance fighter, Gregor Zidar, resurfaces in his old village in 1986, where locals have long believed him dead after his heroic act of saving hostages in 1944. Instead of gratitude, he faces cold suspicion and outright rejection....