Urs Egger

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)
Teenage Wolfpack [de] (1996, TV film) — remake of Teenage Wolfpack
Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on Opernball
Epstein's Night [de] (2002)
Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers [de] (2004, TV film) — based on The Return of the Dancing Master
An die Grenze [de] (2007, TV film)
Ten: Umbra Mortis [de] (2008, TV film)
Kennedy's Brain [de] (2010, TV film) — based on Kennedy's Brain
Murder Is No Fairy Tale [de] (2010, TV film) — based on the novel Brother Grimm by Craig Russell
Residual Risk [de] (2011, TV film)
The Other Child [de] (2013, TV film)
Krokodil (2013, TV film)
Madame Nobel [de] (2014, TV film)
Letter to My Life (2015, TV film)
Gotthard (2016, TV film)
Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)