Esther Gemsch
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 23, 1955
Place of Birth: Bern, Switzerland
Known For
The Heartbreakers
Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
The Shadowers
Crime comedy series about an ex-cop who founds an improvised detective school and gives his students real cases to solve.
Needle Park Baby
Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside. While caring for her mother, Mia spends time with her imaginary friend and a gang of local teenage misfits. These friendships finally give her the strength to rebel and break free from her abusive mother.
Heldin der Lüfte
For Sina Andri, a dream is coming true. As a young helicopter pilot, she has been offered a job at Rega. The only downside is that she has to complete her probationary period at the base in Samedan. Sina fled from there in her youth after her first boyfriend took his own life and she was blamed for it. Sina's return brings back memories for those involved. A new tragedy is looming.
The Tasters
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
Unlikely Heroes
In order to win the respect of her friends and family, divorced housewife Sabine decides to perform Wilhelm Tell with a group of Asylum seekers in the Swiss mountains.
Golden Years
A newly retired couple embarks on a cruise, but they find themselves drifting further apart. When things don’t go as planned, they learn to evolve their relationship in this affectionate comedy about self-discovery and developing new ways to spend one’s golden years.
Tell
Film tells the story of how Switzerland came into being - albeit in a slightly different way to the historical circumstances we have known up to now: William Tell proves himself a national hero against his will in the midst of the comic chaos of court intrigues, mishaps and misguided love of country. Habsburg occupiers and Swabian tourists stand in the way of the Confederates' fight for independence, but a parodic all-round attack ensures that all patriots learn their history lesson - and in the process are relegated to their respective national borders.
Dinu - der Schwerkraft entgegen
Dinu dreams of becoming a wrestling champion. However, his father does not take him seriously, either as his successor on the family farm or as an athlete. And Karl König, his rival since childhood, makes his life even more difficult.
La Joie de Vivre
Gerda’s date with her neighbor does not go as planned when her mother – a narcissistic but humorous grande dame of the theater – shows up at the door. During dinner, both the accusations and the theatrical eccentricity of the visitor escalate to frenzied heights.
Filmography
as La Duchessa
as Herta
as Irene
as Alice Waldvogel
as Doro Iselin
as Frau Schuler
as Sabine
as Mutter Hediger
as Tonia Andri
as Elsbeth
as Sieglinde