Daniel SchmidFilmography

Born:: December 26, 1941
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Beresina oder die letzten Tage der Schweiz

Crew: Director

Actors: Yelena Panova, Geraldine Chaplin, Martin Benrath, Ulrich Noethen, Ivan Darvas

Synopsis: A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina (Yelena Panova) is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in Read More

1999
Das Geschriebene Gesicht

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Japanese-Swiss documentary is a lyrical meditation on the similarities between geishas and the male Kabuki dancers who play females in their traditional plays. Interspersed amongst the interviews of key figures from both fields are long clips of Kabuki performances, and others playing Read More

1995
Hors Saison

Crew: Director

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Dieter Meier, Sami Frey

Synopsis: The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms in order to relive his fond memories of the place. As he remembers, flashbacks reveal episodes in the lives of Read More

1992
The Amateurs

Crew: Director

1991
Noch Ein Wunsch

Actors: Matthias Habich, Johanna Lier

Synopsis: Martin (Matthias Habich) has a settled and materially successful life. During his birthday party, he begins to have qualms about the whole thing, and escapes a life that has suddenly become claustrophobic by going to Paris. There, he has a quick one-night stand with a young girl, an encounter Read More

1989
Jenatsch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Voita, Christine Boisson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Bouise, Laura Betti

Synopsis: Cristophe (Michel Voita) is a reporter who is assigned to interview the prominent archaeologist Tober (Jean Bouise) in this combination fantasy drama. Tober has uncovered the coffin of the legendary 16t-century killer Jenatsch (Vittorio Mezzogiorno). After the interview, Cristophe begins to Read More

1987
Tosca's Kiss

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sara Scuderi, Giovanni Puligheddu, Leonida Bellon

Synopsis: Before he died in 1902, Giuseppe Verdi inaugurated a home for retired artists in Milan, a project he had worked on for some time. This home is maintained by the Friends of the Casa Verdi, after Verdi's royalties that supported the home ran out in the 1960s. Director Daniel Schmid interviews Read More

1984
Ibiza Al Desnudo

1982
Notre Dame de la Croisette

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1981
Lili Marleen

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis: German cabaret star Lili Marleen inspired a song that was extremely popular with the German soldiers during WW II. This war drama offers a fictionalized account of her story that begins in 1938 while she performs in a Zurich cabaret. It is her boyfriend, a Swiss Jew who also turns out to be a Read More

1981
Hecate

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Gerard Desarthe

Synopsis: Clothilde de Watteville (Lauren Hutton) is compared to "Hecate," a three-headed Greek fertility goddess and a protector of witches who came to be associated with Persphone and Hades. Clothilde/Hecate runs into Julien Rochelle (Bernard Giraudeau), a very young French diplomat in north Africa just Read More

1981
The American Friend

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the Read More

1977
Violanta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lucia Bosé, Lou Castel, Ingrid Caven, François Simon

Synopsis: Set in the 19th century, and based on the classic Swiss novel Die Richterin by C. F. Meyer, this film tells a story of ghosts, incest and murder in a mountain village. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Schatten Der Engel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Löwitsch, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: The anguish and suffering of a trio of outcasts is shown in this movie, based on Schatten der Engel Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial and possibly anti-Semitic stage play. A prostitute (Ingrid Craven) with a gift for eliciting confidences from her clients, her pimp (Fassbinder), and one of Read More

1976
La Paloma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: La Paloma is a love story spiced with a touch of horror. In this Swiss-German film, nightclub singer La Paloma (Ingrid Cave) succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer (Peter Kern) and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She Read More

1974
Heute Nacht Oder Nie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Swiss film, Tonight or Never, bears no relationship to the 1931 Melvyn Douglas/Gloria Swanson film of the same name. Instead, ballet, pantomime, tableaux, slow motion and other exaggerated techniques are effectively used to recount events during a European festival in which servants and Read More

1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons

Actors: Hans Hirschmuller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis: Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is about the deterioration of a man's soul. Fruit vendor Hans (Hans Hirschmüller) cannot please his family. His mother harps on his failures. His wife is openly discontent. He must peddle produce to his beloved ex-girlfriend, and he Read More

1971