Urs Egger

Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.

From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Australian Cinema Papers as a correspondent from Los Angeles, responsible for reporting on the film industry. He visited the American Film Institute to become a director.

Egger died in January 2020 in Berlin, Germany, after suffering a long illness.

Select filmography

 * Kinder der Landstrasse (1992)
 * The Tourist (1996, TV film)
 * Teenage Wolfpack (1996 film) (1996, TV film) — remake of Teenage Wolfpack
 * Opernball (1998, TV film) — based on Opernball
 * Epstein's Night (2002)
 * Die Rückkehr des Tanzlehrers (2004, TV film) — based on The Return of the Dancing Master
 * An die Grenze (2007, TV film)
 *  (2008, TV film)
 * Kennedy's Brain (film) (2010, TV film) — based on Kennedy's Brain
 * Murder Is No Fairy Tale (2010, TV film) — based on the novel Brother Grimm by Craig Russell
 * Residual Risk (2011, TV film)
 * The Other Child (2013, TV film)
 * Krokodil (2013, TV film)
 * Madame Nobel (2014, TV film)
 * Letter to My Life (2015, TV film)
 * Gotthard (2016, TV film)
 * Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018, TV film)