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A detective returns to her hometown in the Swiss mountains to remember her brother, who died in an accident many years ago along with several other children. After a murder in the town, she stays and starts to investigate.

The young lawyer Clara Andersen goes beyond all moral limits to have her father, the famous singer Carsten Andersen, declared innocent of raping her best friend Leonie Novak.

Carl Lutz, an Appenzell diplomat and second-in-command at the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, saved tens of thousands of persecuted Hungarian Jews from death during World War II. His humanitarian action is considered the greatest civil rescue operation of Jews during the Holocaust. Lutz negotiated directly and shrewdly with Adolf Eichmann, the deviser of the Holocaust. During this rescue operation, the married Vice-Consul fell in love with one of his protégés. After the end of the war, he divorced his wife, married his beloved in Budapest and moved with her and her daughter to Berne. Instead of being thanked by his country, he was chided for excess of authority and splashing out on his expense account. Until his death, Lutz fought bitterly and vainly for his rehabilitation.

The story of Ken Bugul a Senegalese writer shown to be an exemplar of the female condition and of relationships between Africa and the West.

Follows Mateo Sobode Chiqueno and his recorded stories, songs and testimonies of his Ayoreo people on an old tape recorder.

Mario Venzago literally puts his livelihood on the line when he decides to conduct Othmar Schoeck's monumental opera "Penthesilea" for a one-off concert at the 1999 Lucerne Festival.

A bewitching and moving portrait of a great artist living between dream and reality, truth and fiction and life and death.

"A piece of insanity" follows for four months the rehearsals of a play of a different kind - a story about insanity, played by people with psychological problems, amongst them Alessandro, Miriam and Stefan. Three people that are exposed daily to their own feelings and during these rehearsals they confront their illnesses and its pitfalls with humour and courage. Their personal stories form the fundamental basis. A direct and moving film about three people who act out on stage and express their only wish is to be accepted just the way they are.

El tiempo nublado is a supremely personal film about a universal issue, we all have to face: What are we going to do with our parents, once they are old and ill?

A compassionate portrait of people growing up with serious disabilities in Switzerland and Germany. What does the type of care these young people receive, and their position in society, tell us about the Western world?

Shortly after a former police officer was killed. The Police Departement investigates and gets anonymous clues sent to a local newspaper.

Police officer Engler killed a young man with an iron five years ago. "I would kill that bastard again",he confessed in the video sent again to Langenegger. There are cases of police bravery that were undoubtedly hushed up.

Wilder and Kägi are looking for an officer whom the serial offender has chosen as the third victim. Apparently, the woman let a drug courier freeze to death. Is the civil servant now threatened with the same fate? Serial offender Jesch is courted by neighbor Ruth. Does not put itself in mortal danger.

Cellar: Aeby states having met the presumed serial killer several years earlier. During the meeting, Aeby talked to him about the Volker, Schellenberg and Engler cases, making her the target of the future serial killer.

Procedure: Rosa Wilder drives Mettler, the prosecutor, to the spot where another body has been found. Mettler is nervous: fingerprints have been found. Could they be his? Ten years ago. Lukas, Mettler and Koller caused an accident. Two victims: Jesch's wife and daughter.

Everything comes together to a showdown in the frozen forest.

The retired Rosa Wilder returns to her job as the chief inspector after her former policeman colleague found dead in a mortal car accident.

Gravel: Rosa Wilder has identified two suspects in the policeman's murder. The short-tempered Elias and the craftsmen Zingg are involved in mysterious death. The Räbers, victims of blackmail, are unaware that their accountant is in league with the blackmailer.

Shame: Dani Räber isn't giving into Strunz's blackmail: the documents have no importance. Will the criminal fall into the trap? Suspected of murder, Zingg is set free but Kägi is watching him. Rosa Wilder hopes that her sick father will agree to undergo a treatment which could save his life.