Roger Jendly
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1938-03-08
Locus Natus: Fribourg, Switzerland
Et ut:
Espion, lève-toi
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he...
release : 1982.01.27popularis : 7.398
C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
release : 2006.01.18popularis : 1.75
The Savage Woman
Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time,...
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 0.5
Trapped by Cops
The robberies are becoming more and more brazen, the methods more and more brutal. Because the perpetrator wears bizarre masks, there is no...
release : 1985.10.10popularis : 1.428
Young Girls in Black
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families,...
release : 2010.11.03popularis : 2.987
The Woman from Rose Hill
Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean,...
release : 1989.11.22popularis : 3.263
Every Man for Himself
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.
release : 1980.09.08popularis : 7.453
Vent de galerne
The year 1989 marked the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and a number of filmmakers put together movies intended to celebrate that event....
release : 1989.03.22popularis : 2.248
Location Hunting
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next...
release : 1977.11.16popularis : 6.558
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy...
release : 1976.08.11popularis : 3.6
Second Death of Gregor Z
A Swiss-German-Yugoslavian production.
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 0.571
La Beauté sur la terre
Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads.
release : 2001.06.02popularis : 1.484
The Death of Mario Ricci
A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During...
release : 1983.05.25popularis : 7.578
The Middle of the World
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café...
release : 1974.09.11popularis : 4.899
Kill Hitler
This 140-minute documentary takes a close look at the story and historical context of a young Swiss man who was beheaded during WW II for supposedly...
release : 1981.04.09popularis : 1.901
The Murdered House
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before,...
release : 1988.02.01popularis : 2.961
Tinou
Abstinence leads to suffering, falling off the wagon means death. Tinou must adhere to a strict regimen to qualify as a recipient of a new liver....
release : 2016.01.24popularis : 1.692
My New Partner II
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not...
release : 1990.02.07popularis : 8.719
Alzire or the New Continent
A theatrical group prepare Voltaire’s play “Alzire”. From this the ideas of Voltaire are examined as they relate to the present day...
release : 1978.05.17popularis : 0.373
The Extradition
Throughout the late 19th century and in the early part of the 20th, Russians of a wide variety of political persuasions contemplated various forms of...
release : 1975.03.20popularis : 1.218
Le passe-muraille
Emile Dutilleul, 47 years old, lives a quiet and withdrawn life in Montmartre and works as an employee in an open-plan office with an insurance...
release : 2016.12.14popularis : 2.937
Matlosa
A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley,...
release : 1981.08.31popularis : 0.987
Maman
Lulu is released from prison. Determined to fulfill her dream, find her kids, those of her best friend who remained locked up and go very far. The...
release : 1990.02.14popularis : 1.772
Fluchtgefahr
The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has exceeded the legal limits, he is stuck to the wrong...
release : 1974.08.01popularis : 0.565
Pestalozzi's Mountain
In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...
release : 1989.03.17popularis : 2.536
The Black Beach
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos...
release : 2001.04.08popularis : 1.437
Alors voilà,
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy...
release : 1997.10.22popularis : 3.951
No Man's Land
Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living...
release : 1985.08.28popularis : 1.714
Return from Africa
An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is...
release : 1973.03.23popularis : 2.209