Directing
Laurent Wyss
Place of birth
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Switzerland
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Born in Biel, Laurent Wyss first completed an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener. In 2001, he changed his professional orientation by completing a journalism internship at TeleBielingue. In 2004, he graduated as a PR journalist and started working for the regional TV station in Biel, first in the field of news and sports. He then produced documentary series and developed several program formats. Since 2013, Laurent Wyss also produces and directs commercials, some of which are intended for the international market. In 2014, he wrote and shot his first feature film, a fiction filmed in black and white that tells the story of the strange friendship between an innocent Bernese doctor and a h…
Known for
NRAfter the death of his mother, Peter K. is threatened with eviction from her home where he cared for her. He struggles to defend his refuge from his estranged sister, the city government, and finally, armed po- lice. His conspiracy theories and writings spiral into a violent reality, making him a renegade celebrity. His growing fear and solitude bring on childhood nightmares, while his court battle reveals a dark family past.
Peter K. - Alone against the State
2022
Dr. Basil Feurchtegott operates an complete stranger on the kitchen table in his vacation home, and suddenly finds himself in a very dangerous situation. However, the doctor hasn't felt so alive for a long time. 'The Man', a contract killer, had just traveled by train across the border to Switzerland. In a high rise building 'The Man' accomplishes his job, but is injured. Beneath a bride the two men meet. Fuerchtegott finds the hurt 'Man', and shortly afterwards operates him. The patient rewards him by granting him a favor. A dark net of mistrust, chance, misunderstandings and ignorance unravels towards a catastrophe. Fuerchtegott resumes his job inconspicuously but guilty in the circle of men in white coats, but one of them is missing...
Manche Hunde müssen sterben
2014
Behind the camera
NRAfter the death of his mother, Peter K. is threatened with eviction from her home where he cared for her. He struggles to defend his refuge from his estranged sister, the city government, and finally, armed po- lice. His conspiracy theories and writings spiral into a violent reality, making him a renegade celebrity. His growing fear and solitude bring on childhood nightmares, while his court battle reveals a dark family past.
Peter K. - Alone against the State
2022
NRAfter the death of his mother, Peter K. is threatened with eviction from her home where he cared for her. He struggles to defend his refuge from his estranged sister, the city government, and finally, armed po- lice. His conspiracy theories and writings spiral into a violent reality, making him a renegade celebrity. His growing fear and solitude bring on childhood nightmares, while his court battle reveals a dark family past.
Peter K. - Alone against the State
2022
Dr. Basil Feurchtegott operates an complete stranger on the kitchen table in his vacation home, and suddenly finds himself in a very dangerous situation. However, the doctor hasn't felt so alive for a long time. 'The Man', a contract killer, had just traveled by train across the border to Switzerland. In a high rise building 'The Man' accomplishes his job, but is injured. Beneath a bride the two men meet. Fuerchtegott finds the hurt 'Man', and shortly afterwards operates him. The patient rewards him by granting him a favor. A dark net of mistrust, chance, misunderstandings and ignorance unravels towards a catastrophe. Fuerchtegott resumes his job inconspicuously but guilty in the circle of men in white coats, but one of them is missing...
Manche Hunde müssen sterben
2014
Dr. Basil Feurchtegott operates an complete stranger on the kitchen table in his vacation home, and suddenly finds himself in a very dangerous situation. However, the doctor hasn't felt so alive for a long time. 'The Man', a contract killer, had just traveled by train across the border to Switzerland. In a high rise building 'The Man' accomplishes his job, but is injured. Beneath a bride the two men meet. Fuerchtegott finds the hurt 'Man', and shortly afterwards operates him. The patient rewards him by granting him a favor. A dark net of mistrust, chance, misunderstandings and ignorance unravels towards a catastrophe. Fuerchtegott resumes his job inconspicuously but guilty in the circle of men in white coats, but one of them is missing...
Manche Hunde müssen sterben
2014
Dr. Basil Feurchtegott operates an complete stranger on the kitchen table in his vacation home, and suddenly finds himself in a very dangerous situation. However, the doctor hasn't felt so alive for a long time. 'The Man', a contract killer, had just traveled by train across the border to Switzerland. In a high rise building 'The Man' accomplishes his job, but is injured. Beneath a bride the two men meet. Fuerchtegott finds the hurt 'Man', and shortly afterwards operates him. The patient rewards him by granting him a favor. A dark net of mistrust, chance, misunderstandings and ignorance unravels towards a catastrophe. Fuerchtegott resumes his job inconspicuously but guilty in the circle of men in white coats, but one of them is missing...
Manche Hunde müssen sterben
2014
