''Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus'' () is a 2012 Swiss German language television film that was filmed and produced at locations in Basel respectively in Switzerland. It is the last film of the six-episode serial starring

Mathias Gnädinger Mathias Gnädinger (25 March 1941 – 3 April 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor. Career Initially a typesetter and typographer, Gnädinger began his acting training at the ''Bühnenstudio Zürich'' (now part of the Zurich University of ...

as ''Kommissär Hunkeler''.

Cast

In alphabetical order *

as Kommissär Peter Hunkeler * Charlotte Heinimann as Hedwig * Marie Leuenberger as Beate Keller * Barbara Melzl as Judith Keller *

Axel Milberg Axel Theodor Klaus Milberg (born 1 August 1956) is a German actor. His most prominent role is that of ''Tatort'' investigator Klaus Borowski. Selected filmography * ''After Five in the Forest Primeval'' (1995) * ' (1996) * ''Father's Day'' (1 ...

as Bernhard Vetter *

Johann Adam Oest Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

as Walter Rutziska *

Gilles Tschudi Gilles Tschudi is a Swiss actor, born in 1957. He is notable for his 2004 Swiss Film Prize for "Performance in a Supporting Role" as "Secretary Goltz" in ''Jagged Harmonies – Bach vs. Frederick II'' and for appearing in theatrical films '' ...

as Madörin

Plot (excerpt)

Peter Hunkeler (Mathias Gnädinger) has been retired as ''Kommissär'' (inspector) of the Basel Police, and for the first time since years, enjoys with his fiancée Hedwig a play in the Basel theatre. His old passion goes back to his early years when he had played on stage, and planned making the acting to his profession, but then opted for the supposedly safer career with the police. The premiere of Sophocles' ''

Oedipus Rex ''Oedipus Rex'', also known by its Greek title, ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' ( grc, Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, ), or ''Oedipus the King'', is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Gr ...

'' – Hunkeler fascinated, Hedwig sleeping – turns upside down, as one of the actors, Walter Rutziska, is sabotaging the production by suddenly showing up drunk in the audience and insulting the audience. Hunkeler assumes the derailment a brilliant director's incidence, and at the premiere party, he would like to congratulate the director and star of the production, Bernhard Vetter – and conceded puzzled a slap in the face. Vetter is furiously chasing the whole society to go to hell and disappears. The "Provence", the name of the yacht the party was onboard it, disappears in the night, and the next morning is found leaderless and damaged on a dam downriver. Bernhard Vetter is missing, and a short time later fished out of the

Rhine ), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland , source1_coordinates= , source1_elevation = , source2 = Rein Posteriur/Hinterrhein , source2_location = Paradies Glacier, Graubünden, Switzerland , source2_coordinates= , so ...

river, having empty eye sockets...

Title

The title of the film derives from the German term meaning ''Hunkeler and the eyes of Oedipus'' referring to the play ''Oedipus Rex''.

Production

The television film is the last episode of six films about ''Kommissär Hunkeler'' starring Mathias Gnädinger, which were produced for the Swiss television

SF DRS Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; "Swiss Television") is the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland. It has its head office in Zürich. ...

between 2004 ( Das Paar im Kahn) and 2012. The

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...

language movie bases on the 2010 novel ''Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus'' by

Hansjörg Schneider Hansjörg Schneider (born 27 March 1938) is a Swiss writer and dramatist known for occasionally using ''Mundart'' or Swiss dialect. He received the Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar is a literary prize of Hesse ...

,Hansjörg Schneider: ''Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus''. Diogenes, Zürich 2010, . and was filmed at locations in Basel, at the ''Rhein'' river respectively in Switzerland and Germany, as well as in the neighboring Alsace (France).

, in his early years a stage actor at the Theater Neumarkt at

Neumarkt, Zürich Neumarkt is a street and a historical area in the Rathaus quarter (Altstadt) of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. Geography Neumarkt is bounded by ''Spiegelgasse'', ''Rindermarkt'', ''Froschauergasse'' and ''Seilergraben'' streets in the Rath ...

, died on 3 April 2015, hence the ''Hunkeler'' serial comprises six films in total.

Festivals

* 2013

Solothurn Film Festival The Solothurn Film Festival (SFT) is the most important festival for Swiss film productions. Founded in 1966 in the Swiss city of Solothurn, the annual festival presents a representative selection of Swiss feature, documentary, and short film produ ...

References

External links

* 2012 television films 2012 films Swiss television films Swiss German-language films 2012 crime films Films shot in Switzerland German-language television shows Swiss crime films {{Switzerland-film-stub