Fusilier Wipf

Fusilier Wipf
Directed by	Hermann Haller Leopold Lindtberg
Written by	Robert Faesi Richard Schweizer
Starring	Paul Hubschmid Heinrich Gretler Robert Trösch Zarli Carigiet
Cinematography	Emil Berna
Edited by	Käthe Mey Hermann Haller
Music by	Robert Blum
Production company	Praesens-Film
Distributed by	Praesens-Film
Release date	1938
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Switzerland
Language	Swiss German

Fusilier Wipf (German: Füsilier Wipf) is a 1938 Swiss drama film directed by Hermann Haller and Leopold Lindtberg and starring Paul Hubschmid, Heinrich Gretler and Robert Trösch. When the First World War breaks out, a hairdresser's assistant in neutral Switzerland is mobilised for border protection duty. Serving in the army, he grows from a boy into a man and develops a greater love for his country. The film was part of the intellectual spiritual defence of Switzerland during the era as the country maintained a neutral stance in the years leading up to the Second World War, which began a year after the film was released.

Cast

• Paul Hubschmid - Reinhold Wipf
• Heinrich Gretler Leu
• Robert Trösch - Meisterhans
• Zarli Carigiet - Schatzli
• Max Werner Lenz - Hungerbühler
• Karl Meier - Gmür
• Walter Bölsterli - Füsilier
• Paul Ruffy - Füsilier
• Sigfrit Steiner - Oberleutnant
• Arnold Müdespacher - Korporal Hotz
• Emil Hegetschweiler - Coiffeur Wiederkehr
• Fanny Kaegi - Frau Wiederkehr
• Elsie Attenhofer - Rosa Wiederkehr
• Lisa della Casa - Vreneli
• Wolfgang Heinz - Kriegsgefangener
• Alfred Rasser - Notar
• Erwin Kalser - Herr Godax
• Ludwig Donath - Kriegsgefangener

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Fusilier Wipf at IMDb