Uli der Knecht

Name: Uli der Knecht
Director: Franz Schnyder
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Released: 1954-10-19
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Hannes Schmidhauser, Emil Hegetschweiler, Liselotte Pulver, Heinrich Gretler, Hedda Koppé

Directed by Franz Schnyder

Drama

Romance

Comedy

19541h 55m6.1

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.