Bruno Moll (documentary filmmaker)

Bruno Moll (* 1948 in Olten ) is a Swiss documentary filmmaker.

Life

Bruno Moll first completed an apprenticeship as a machine draftsman, before training as a photographer from 1972 to 1974. He has been working as a freelance photographer, photojournalist and camera assistant since 1975, and as a freelance writer and director since 1978.

His film Pizza Bethlehem was awarded both the Zurich Film Prize and the Bern Film Prize in 2010 .

Filmography

• 1978: Gottlieb's home - sketches of an emigration
• 1980: Samba Lento
• 1982: all of life
• 1984: The gentle way
• 1984: Between Heaven and Hell
• 1985: hammer
• 1987: starvation time
• 1987: Many eyes see more
• 1988: The Patriarch's Shoe (Portrait of the Bally entrepreneurial family: Carl Franz Bally 1821–1899, Eduard Bally 1847–1926, Ivan Bally)
• 1989: André Jaunet - flautist
• 1989: open fire!
• 1989: J'aimerais savoir
• 1989: What if ...?
• 1992: Gente di Mare
• 1993: The bad guys
• 1995: Chaospiloten - The dream of your own company
• 1995: Franz Anatol Wyss - Traces of Berlin
• 1995: Mekong
• 1996: Müesliland
• 1998: Brain Concert
• 1998: Golf & Golf - Two men on the ball
• 1999: The Feast of the Shepherds
• 1999: Migraine - Inferno in the head
• 2000: The social capitalist - Gottlieb Duttweiler (portrait of Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler )
• 2000: Erich von Däniken's dream
• 2000: Klangkörper - The Swiss Pavilion at the Expo 2000
• 2001: the tunnel
• 2001: Drums and Trance - The Candomblé in Salvador do Bahia
• 2002: Requiem for an oval - the Zurich six-day race
• 2003: Shire
• 2003: The Drums of Harar - Religious Music in Ethiopia
• 2003: Fit for live
• 2004: Whoever doesn't have a passport is a dog - Bertolt Brecht and Switzerland
• 2005: remembering
• 2005: Venice should be very beautiful
• 2006: Worlds of Illusion
• 2006: daughter of the sea
• 2007: The trip to Tunis
• 2007: Ghana St.Gallen return
• 2007: On foot to Santiago de Compostela
• 2008: The Romansh - an outside view
• 2009: Quels da Lü
• 2010: Pizza Bethlehem

Awards

• 1976: Federal grant for applied arts - photography
• 1979: Annual contribution from the Canton of Solothurn
• 1982: Interfilm Prize at the Forum des Junge Films Berlin for the whole of life
• 1984: Landis and Gyr Foundation Prize
• 1986: Film Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 1987: EDI awards Best commissioned film of the year for Many Eyes See More
• 1989: EDI awards Best commissioned film of the year for J'aimerais savoir
• 1993: Sponsorship award from the SBG Jubilee Foundation
• 1999: Bern Film Prize for Brain Concert
• 1999: Nomination for the Swiss Film Prize for Brain Concert
• 1999: Zurich Film Prize for The Patriarch's Shoe
• 2004: Acknowledgment award from the city of Olten
• 2010: Bern Film Prize for Pizza Bethlehem
• 2010: Zurich Film Prize for Pizza Bethlehem

literature

• Peter Gomm: A portrait of the filmmaker Bruno Moll . In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter, Vol. 62, 2004, pp. 49–51.

Web links

• Bruno Moll in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bruno Moll at the Swiss Film Direction and Screenwriting Association
• Bruno Moll at Fama Film