IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004486/
Date of Birth:22 March 1941, Zürich-Seebach, Switzerland
Date of Death:16 February 2019, colorectal cancer
Height:5' 6" (1.68 m)
Trademarks:Frequently has played reflective, troubled characters
A comedy wrapped around a tragedy. It starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor.
In 1942 a wealthy Swiss Jewish cattle dealer is tormented by a group of local Nazi supporters. More than six decades later a child witness writes his account of the incident, much to the chagrin of the townspeople who would have rather forget than commemorate the affair. A powerful drama that links the horrors of the past to Europe's current refugee crisis.
Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since arriving in Lampedusa, Italy. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic hospice at an altitude of over 2000 meters. While they wait for their fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna meets Kabir, a 26-year-old African refugee, and falls desperately in love. Their relationship develops in secret, till the day Kabir disappears.
USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations. The House That Jack Built is a dark and sinister story, yet presented through a philosophical and occasional humorous tale.
Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler. A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.