Swiss Film Awards 2007

2007 Swiss Film Awards
2007 Solothurn Film Festival: January 22-28, 2007
2007 Swiss Film Award winners
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Teo Gheorghiu, Bruno Ganz in Vitus
 

Best Film
Comme des voleurs / Like Thieves
Das Fräulein
Grounding
Mon frère se marie / My Brother Is Getting Married
* Vitus directed by Fredi M. Murer
Best Documentary
Das Erbe der Bergler
* Das Kurze Leben des José Antonio Gutierrez / The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez directed by Heidi Specogna
Ein Lied für Argyris / A Song for Argyris
Hippie Masala
La Liste de Carla / Carla’s List
Best Performer in a Leading Role
* Jean-Luc Bideau, Mon frère se marie / My Brother Is Getting Married
Stephanie Glaser, Die Herbstzeitlosen
Michael Neuenschwander, Nachbeben
Best Performer in a Supporting Role
* Natacha Koutchoumov, Pas de panique / No [...]

by Andre Soares | January 29, 2007   
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2007 Swiss Film Award Winners

The 2007 Swiss Film Awards were announced yesterday at the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival.
Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (right), which is one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign-language film Academy Award, was selected as best Swiss film of 2006. Vitus, the story of a reluctant piano prodigy and his grandfather, stars Teo Gheorghiu and Bruno Ganz. It has sold nearly 200,000 tickets since its release in German-speaking Switzerland last year.
The best documentary winner was Heidi Specogna’s The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez, about a Guatemalan street kid who, after immigrating to the United States, joined the U.S. marine corps hoping to gain U.S. citizenship but ended up as the first dead U.S. soldier in the Iraq [...]

by Andre Soares | January 25, 2007   
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