Writing
Max Frisch
Born 1911-05-15 · Zürich, Switzerland
Acting credits
6.5Sandra Hüller portrays Ingeborg Bachmann on an imaginary day in Rome. Regina Schilling’s hybrid film weaves together reenactments, archival footage, and Bachmann’s own writings into a portrait that offers a refreshing new perspective on the author and positions her writings as a reference point in current debates on gender relations and power.
Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war
2026
NRPhilippe Pilliod interviews Max Frisch in 1985/86.
Max Frisch - Gespräche im Alter
1986
Behind the camera
9.0Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an old man, isolated from the outside world in a little mountain village in Ticino, Switzerland, who fights against oblivion. From books that he has there he cuts out texts and images about geology and geological history to fix and arrange them on the walls of his cottage. Frisch adds these articles to his novel to assemble human history with individual decay.
Holocene
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Graf Öderland
2021
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Biographie - Un jeu
2022
9.0Gessler, the Rütli Oath, the apple shot, the Hollow Lane: the deeds of Swiss national hero William Tell in his fight against tyranny and violence in 1291. Based on Friedrich Schiller's drama and Aegidius Tschudi's chronicle.
William Tell
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Biedermann und die Brandstifter
1967
10.0A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of Frisch – who was one of the greatest 20th century Swiss writers – nor a filmed adaptation of the novel. Instead, Dindo returns to the locations the author describes in his texts, searching for traces of past events that may turn out to have been more imagined than real.
Max Frisch, Journal I-III
1981