Nacht der Gaukler

Nacht Der Gaukler
5.09.2024
20:00 Uhr

Klaus Koska is being pursued. After witnessing a murder and discovering that no one in the ministry believes his story, he barricades himself in his apartment. The sudden appearance of a huge wooden crate, along with the clingy neighbor Marlene and the intrusive dental patient Hermann Schmidt, reinforces Koska’s belief that he is being targeted. However, he does not yet know that the Justice Minister, Lubitsch, is personally trying to eliminate him to declare himself dictator that same evening. Far too late, Koska realizes that the wooden crate in his apartment is meant to hide his corpse.

Feature film, Switzerland 2002

Language: Swiss German, German
Duration: 89 min.

Michael Steiner was born in 1969 in Hergiswil. He studied ethnology, art history, and film studies at the University of Zurich. With “Mein Name ist Eugen,” he won the Swiss Film Award for Best Feature Film in 2006. The drama GROUNDNIG (2006) about the last days of Swissair, as well as the comedy WOLKENBRUCH (2018), are among the most successful Swiss films. The Zurich Film Festival 2023 was opened with EARLY BIRDS. As part of the festival, his debut work NACHT DER GAUKLER will be shown at the festival.