Alain Gsponer

Directing

Alain Gsponer

Born

1976-03-10 (50)

Place of birth

Zürich, Switzerland

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

Heidi poster
7.3

Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.

Heidi

2015

The Little Ghost poster
5.6

The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!

The Little Ghost

2013

Godless Youth poster
6.1

German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.

Godless Youth

2017

My Words, My Lies - My Love poster
6.0

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.

My Words, My Lies - My Love

2009

Cloud Under the Roof poster
6.3

Paul, Julia and Lilly are a happy family, until Julia dies unexpectedly. For the sake of his daughter, Paul wants to function and suppress his grief. Lilly keeps challenging him with her imagination and her very own view of Mum's death.

Cloud Under the Roof

2022

The Grüninger File poster
6.2

1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.

The Grüninger File

2014

Life Actually poster
6.0

Inner chaos breaks free in two families.

Life Actually

2007

Rose poster
6.1

Rose is in her early forties and a single mother of three – supposedly – adult sons: Bernd, 23, earns money for the family during the day at a copy shop and in the evenings at a pub; Axi, 21, is training at a bank; and the youngest, Stan, who will soon turn 18, is skipping high school and would rather smoke weed and pursue a career as a DJ. Rose led a wild life as a squatter in the early 1980s, but that came to an abrupt end when she separated from Jürgen, the father of her three boys, more than ten years ago. They have had no contact since then. Rose moved into her grandfather's house with her three sons and now earns a living writing pulp fiction. And then there's her new boyfriend, Gerhard. She doesn't dare introduce him to her sons and doesn't know herself whether he's the right one.

Rose

2005

Der letzte Weynfeldt poster
4.3

The lack of an olive for his Dry Martini drives Adrian Weynfeldt one night to a nearby bar. There he meets a beautiful woman whose direct style and unpolished charm he can not escape. He takes Lorena home. The next morning Lorena stands outside the balcony railing and wants to jump down. The awkward Weynfeldt manages to dissuade her from her project. From now on, Lorena blames him for her life and tempts him to help her out of financial bottlenecks on several occasions. So he begins to pay her debts to a man named Pedroni, whom Lorena claims is a debt collector. Then his old friend Dr. Baier asks him for an impossible favor: Weynfeldt is to release a forgery of the painting "Le Salamandre" by Felix Vallotton for auction. But what does Lorena have to do with it? And is Weynfeldt, who has hitherto had nothing to do with the counterfeiters and blackmailers, resist the temptation?

Der letzte Weynfeldt

2010

No artwork available
NR

Michi and Vicky are getting married. And Eder is supposed to be Michi's best man. So far, so good, if it weren't for Pumuckl, who also wants to experience the great feeling of love that Eder raves about. Pumuckl also wants to be swept off his feet, sail into the harbor of marriage, and anchor a three-masted ship directly in the bay of matrimony. And so the wedding celebration turns out very differently than everyone had imagined.

Pumuckl und das große Fest

2027

Kiki and Tiger poster
8.2

1997. Tiger, a Serb living in Germany is best friends with an illegal Albanian refugee, Kiki. A natural hustler, Kiki sweet-talks his way into odd jobs and women's hearts. The bond between the two men appears unbreakable, but the combination of Tiger's malicious father, who despises Albanians, and Kiki's new German girlfriend conspires to draw them apart. Then fate steps in and Kiki is deported, but the final straw comes when Tiger's father threatens to send Tiger to fight in the Balkans.

Kiki and Tiger

2003