''Fusilier Wipf'' (German: ''Füsilier Wipf'') is a 1938 Swiss

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directed by Hermann Haller and

Leopold Lindtberg Leopold Lindtberg (born in Vienna on 1 June 1902; died in Sils im Engadin/Segl on 18 April 1984) was an Austrian Swiss film and theatre director. He fled Austria due to the Machtergreifung in Germany and ultimately settled in Switzerland. His ...

and starring

Paul Hubschmid Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens ...

Heinrich Gretler Heinrich Gretler (1897–1977) was a Swiss film and television actor, who also starred on stage at the Bernhard-Theater in Zurich. Selected filmography * '' The Mysterious Mirror'' (1928) * '' Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) * ''The Man ...

and Robert Trösch. When the

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breaks out, a

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's assistant in neutral Switzerland is mobilised for border protection duty. Serving in the army, he grows from a boy into a man and develops a greater love for his country. The film was part of the intellectual

spiritual defence The Spiritual national defence (German: ''Geistige Landesverteidigung''; French: ''Défense ationalespirituelle'') was a political-cultural movement in Switzerland which was active from circa 1932 into the 1960s. It was supported by the Swis ...

of Switzerland during the era as the country maintained a neutral stance in the years leading up to the

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, which began a year after the film was released.

Cast

* Paul Hubschmid - Reinhold Wipf *

Leu * Robert Trösch - Meisterhans * Zarli Carigiet - Schatzli * Max Werner Lenz - Hungerbühler *

Karl Meier Karl Meier (16 March 1897, St. Gallen – 29 March 1974, Zurich) was a Swiss actor influential in the European LGBT social movement. He was a member of the socially active Cabaret Cornichon company, and editor for the gay magazine ''Der Kr ...

- Gmür * Walter Bölsterli - Füsilier * Paul Ruffy - Füsilier *

Sigfrit Steiner Sigfrit Steiner (31 October 1906 – 21 March 1988) was a Swiss actor. His first stage performance was in 1928 in Gera. He performed in more than one hundred films. He was married to journalist and author Anne Rose Katz. Selected filmography ...

- Oberleutnant * Arnold Müdespacher - Korporal Hotz * Emil Hegetschweiler - Coiffeur Wiederkehr * Fanny Kaegi - Frau Wiederkehr * Elsie Attenhofer - Rosa Wiederkehr * Lisa della Casa - Vreneli * Wolfgang Heinz - Kriegsgefangener * Alfred Rasser - Notar * Erwin Kalser - Herr Godax *

Ludwig Donath Ludwig Donath (6 March 1900 – 29 September 1967), was an Austrian actor who appeared in many American films. Life Born to a Jewish family, Donath graduated from Vienna's Academy of Dramatic Art and became a prominent actor on the stage i ...

- Kriegsgefangener

Bibliography

* Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* {{Switzerland-film-stub 1938 films Swiss drama films Swiss German-language films Films directed by Hermann Haller Films directed by Leopold Lindtberg Films set in Switzerland Films set in the 1910s Films shot in Switzerland 1938 drama films Swiss black-and-white films