Niklaus Schilling (23 April 1944 – 6 May 2016) was a Swiss

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

, and

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. He directed 13 films between 1967 and 1996. His 1977 film '' The Expulsion from Paradise'' was entered into the

27th Berlin International Film Festival The 27th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June – 5 July 1977. The festival opened with ''Nickelodeon'' by Peter Bogdanovich. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Soviet Union film '' The Ascent'' directed by Larisa Shep ...

. The following year, his film '' Rhinegold'' was entered into the

28th Berlin International Film Festival The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978. Director Wolf Donner successfully managed to shift the festival's date from June to February, a change which has remained ever since. This was the firs ...

Selected filmography

* ''

Forty Eight Hours to Acapulco ''Forty Eight Hours to Acapulco'' (German: ''48 Stunden bis Acapulco'') is a 1967 West German crime film directed by Klaus Lemke and starring Dieter Geissler, Christiane Krüger and Monika Zinnenberg.Bock & Bergfelder p.419 Location shooting took ...

'' (dir. , 1967) * ''

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'' (dir. Rudolf Thome, 1969) * ''

Don't Fumble, Darling ''Don't Fumble, Darling'' (German: ''Nicht fummeln, Liebling'') is a 1970 West German comedy film directed by May Spils and starring Werner Enke, Gila von Weitershausen and Henry van Lyck. The film was distributed by the German subsidiary of Param ...

'' (dir. , 1970) * ' (1972) * '' The Expulsion from Paradise'' (1977) * '' Rhinegold'' (1978) * ''

The Willi Busch Report ''The Willi Busch Report'' (german: Der Willi-Busch-Report) is a 1979 German drama film directed by Niklaus Schilling. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Tilo Prückner - Willi Busch * Kornel ...

'' (1979) * ' (1982) * ' (1984) * ''Dormire'' (1985) * ''The Spirit'' (1989) * ' (1992)

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* 1944 births 2016 deaths German-language film directors Swiss film directors Swiss cinematographers Swiss screenwriters Male screenwriters {{Switzerland-film-director-stub