Acting
Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban Switzerland.
Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. Together with a few friends (among them famous Swiss actor Stefan Kurt), director Aron Nick's father and uncle shoot the idealistic Super 8 film "Dr Tscharniblues" ("The Tscharni Blues") – a wild, unvarnished self-portrait of their generation. 40 years later, Nick gathers the friends at Tscharnergut and asks what has happened to them and their ideals in the meantime. What have the achieved? What have they lost? Past, present, and future clash and form a journey of personal disappointments, hopes, and a collective search for identity. In "Tscharniblues II," Aron Nick discovers a kind of friendship that can weather anything.
Max would have stayed on his lonely alp forever. Then this Yankee puts a flea in his ear and tells him that he can have any woman with an edelweiss. Max has an edelweiss. ...She lives in Rome and has the unusual name Maria. But unfortunately not only noble intentions. It's a matter of life and death. Max chooses Edelweiss and wins Maria as his wife. Everything looks like a happy ending, but Max finds himself in the far reaches of Siberia... He never wanted to go there. Not without Maria anyway, and in a deadly showdown Max follows her trail of blood... Nothing should be spared in this black slapstick. Certainly not love.
Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.
Two dissimilar types – the earnest impassive Bede and the easy-going Luki – suddenly find themselves thrown together. Their difficulties with women, the world, each other and themselves force them to search together for their own way. Hesitant and somewhat helpless, they turn to each other. Thus begins an obstacle race that is not without ist amusing side.
On June 22, 1991, photographer Chäschpu misses the decisive goal in the Swiss Cup final. His entire life, he has successfully stumbled through his permanent provisional existence. On this day, Graszena memorizes the drinks menu of her new employer. She takes what life as a foreign waitress has to offer. Tina, the student from the countryside, runs away from home. But she always does that. Night nurse Lucie lives in her world of books. No wonder she sleepwalks and has to put up bars before going to bed. Özgür from Turkey is different: he dreams of great happiness. And because that is so hard to find, he imagines he has already found it. Here in Switzerland, of course. What connects these five very different characters?
Loosely based on Jörg Steiner's «DER KOLLEGE» tells the story of the unemployed MAX PLÜSS. He moved to Biel more than 45 years ago. Today, Plüss learns that he has been «taxed out» and has to apply for social welfare. This surprises him, but does not depress him – despite the winter, cold and high fog.
