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I Was A Swiss Banker
''I Was a Swiss Banker'' is a 2007 fantasy film directed by Thomas Imbach, from a screenplay by Imbach, Eva Kammerer and Jürg Hassler, and starring Beat Marti. The film premiered on 12 February 2007 during the Berlin International Film Festival. Plot The successful young Swiss banker Roger Caviezel has been smuggling the black money of his German customers across the border for some time. When he is stopped in his vehicle at a border control, he flees into Lake Constance with his wallet - as the police are chasing him. This lake, however, is populated by mystical beings. The banker bets with a witch that he can find his true love in a maximum of three attempts. When his flirtations with a shepherdess, a blonde seductress and a waitress fail and he realizes that he cannot free himself from the clutches of the pushy witch, he visits his canton Graubünden home. There he falls in love with a Turkish employee on his grandmother's farm, which also does not last long. After he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Imbach
Thomas Imbach (born 1962) is an independent filmmaker based in Zürich, Switzerland. With his production company Bachim Films, Imbach produced his own work until 2007. He then founded Okofilm Productions with director/producer Andrea Staka. All of his films have been theatrically released and Imbach has won numerous awards for his work, both in Switzerland and abroad. With ''Well Done'' (1994) and ''Ghetto'' (1997) Imbach established his trademark audio-visual style, which is based on a combination of cinema- verité camerawork and fast-paced editing. His fiction features ''Happiness is a Warm Gun'' (nominated for the Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival), as well as ''Lenz'' (2006), '' I Was a Swiss Banker'' (2007) and the fictive autobiography Day is Done (2011) all premiered at the Berlinale. His latest feature film Mary Queen of Scots celebrated its premiere in Locarno and at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. His latest documentary Nemesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |