Max Haufler Movies

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for...

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.

Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.

Three bums get played by the devil.

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of...

Short documentary about civil life.

Brothel-owner Chikita Hausmann is forced to flee a South American revolution and sets up a new “house of pleasure” in a sleepy Swiss...

A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for...

The further trials of the wealthy Emmentaler farming family Jowäger and their neighbors, adapted from the second volume of the 19th century...

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle...

They live behind the rails of the classification yard in a small and shabby hut. They take the days as they come, refuse to work on principle and...

The trials of the wealthy Emmentaler farming family Jowäger, adapted from the 19th century novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf (pen-name...

The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by...

The daughter of a traveling circus director falls in love with a young farmer and finds herself in a life-changing conflict.

After the death of his parents, Beat Matter grows up with the Escher family. Their son Dominik is his best friend. As a young man, Beat enlists for...

The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed....

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert...