Movielogr
Uli der Knecht (1954)
Directed by Franz Schnyder
Overview
The film traces Uli’s progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing, and the comic interludes surprisingly subtle and believable for a Swiss film. The no-star cast doomed Uli Der Knecht from the start so far as American distribution was concerned. It was another matter in Switzerland, where the film was one of the year’s top moneymakers. Uli der Knecht was based on a novel by Jeremias Gottbelf.
Length 115 minutes
Actors
Hannes Schmidhauser | Emil Hegetschweiler | Liselotte Pulver | Heinrich Gretler | Hedda Koppé | Marianne Matti | Erwin Kohlund | Stephanie Glaser | Alfred Rasser | Linda Geiser | Max Haufler