Urs Egger

{{Short description|Swiss film and television director (1953–2020)}}

Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.

From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Australian Cinema Papers as a correspondent from Los Angeles, responsible for reporting on the film industry. He visited the American Film Institute to become a director.

Egger died in January 2020 in Berlin, Germany, after suffering a long illness.

Select filmography

Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
The Tourist (1996, TV film)
{{ill|Teenage Wolfpack (1996 film)|de|3=Die Halbstarken (1996)|lt=Teenage Wolfpack}} (1996, TV film) — remake of Teenage Wolfpack
Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on Opernball
{{ill|Epstein's Night|de|Epsteins Nacht}} (2002)
{{ill|Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers|de|Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers (Film)}} (2004, TV film) — based on The Return of the Dancing Master
{{ill|An die Grenze|de}} (2007, TV film)
{{Interlanguage link multi|Ten: Umbra Mortis|de|Das jüngste Gericht (Film)}} (2008, TV film)
{{ill|Kennedy's Brain (film)|de|Kennedys Hirn|lt=Kennedy's Brain}} (2010, TV film) — based on Kennedy's Brain
{{ill|Murder Is No Fairy Tale|de|Wolfsfährte (Film)}} (2010, TV film) — based on the novel Brother Grimm by Craig Russell
{{ill|Residual Risk|de|Restrisiko (2011)}} (2011, TV film)
{{ill|The Other Child|de|Charlotte Link – Das andere Kind}} (2013, TV film)
Crocodile (2013, TV film)
{{Ill|Madame Nobel|de|Eine Liebe für den Frieden – Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel}} (2014, TV film)
Letter to My Life (2015, TV film)
{{ill|Gotthard (film)|de|Gotthard (Fernsehfilm)|lt=Gotthard}} (2016, TV film)
Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)

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