Rolf Illig
5 titles
Filmography
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The Guardian and His Poet
(1978)The true story of the unique bond between esteemed, schizophrenic Swiss author Robert Walser and Zurich critic, editor, and arts patron, Carl Seelig.
Herschel and the Music of the Stars
(1986)In 1792 composer Joseph Haydn moves from Vienna to Windsor Castle, to see a miraculous telescope, invented by an astronomer who will discover Uranus.
Land of Silence and Darkness
(1971)Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Céleste
(1981)The true story of the relationship between Marcel Proust and his assistant Céleste Albaret, who was his doting muse for over 8 years until his death.
The Swing
(1983)Based on the nostalgic memoir by Annette Kolb, the middle-class family life of three sisters totters on the brink of what will erupt into World War 1.