Marcel Gisler
Marcel Gisler (born March 18, 1960 in Altstätten ) is a Swiss filmmaker , director and screenwriter .
life and work
Marcel Gisler grew up in the canton of St. Gallen . He studied drama and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . There he and friends founded a film group committed to “cinéma copain”, from which his first feature film, Tagediebe, emerged : a portrait of the West Berlin counterculture of the 1980s. With the film he won the silver leopard in Locarno straight away . Marcel Gisler's other films are set in - mostly big-city - contemporary worlds. F. est un salaud was based on the Swiss-German cult novel “Ter Fögi isch e Souhung” by Martin Frank . Rosie , the opening film of the 48th Solothurn Film Festival, received six nominations for the Swiss Film Prize 2013. His documentary Electroboy won the Swiss Film Prize in 2015.
Marcel Gisler is u. a. Lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and member of the European Film Academy .
Filmography
- 1985: day thieves
- 1988: Sleepless Nights
- 1992: The blue hour
- 1999: F. est un salaud
- 2003–2007: Lüthi and Blanc (screenwriter 36 episodes)
- 2013: Rosie
- 2014: Electroboy
- 2018: Mario
Awards
- 1985 Silver leopard for day thieves
- 1988 Bronze Leopard for Sleepless Nights
- 1992 Max Ophüls Prize from the Saarland Prime Minister for The Blue Hour
- 1999 Swiss film award for F. est un salaud
- 2013 Six nominations for the Swiss Film Prize for Rosie , Swiss Film Prize 2013 for Sibylle Brunner in Rosie (Best Actress)
- 2013 Zurich Film Prize for Rosie
- 2014 Zurich Film Prize for Electroboy
- 2015 Three nominations for the Swiss Film Award for Electroboy
- 2015 Swiss film award for Electroboy
- 2015 Audience Award for Electroboy at the Munich International Documentary Film Festival
- 2018 Festival Award FilmOut San Diego (USA) for best international feature film for Mario
- 2018 Four nominations for the Swiss Film Prize for Mario (best feature film, best screenplay), Swiss Film Prize for Max Hubacher (best actor) and Jessie Moravec (best supporting actress), both in Mario
Web links
- Marcel Gisler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marcel Gisler at filmportal.de
- Marcel Gisler at swissfilms.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss Film Prize 2015. Accessed on May 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2014 , press release of the Zurich City Council of November 25, 2014.
- ↑ Nominations for the Swiss Film Prize 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. schweizerfilmpreis.ch, accessed on February 20, 2015
- ↑ Awarded at the Documentary Film Festival on br.de, accessed on May 22, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gisler, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altstätten |