''Uli the Tenant'' (German: ''Uli, der Pächter'') is a 1955 Swiss

comedy drama film Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

directed by

Franz Schnyder Franz Schnyder (5 March 1910 – 8 February 1993) was a Swiss film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1941 and 1968. His film ''Der 10. Mai'' was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Filmography * '' ...

and starring

Liselotte Pulver Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty an ...

, Hannes Schmidhauser and Emil Hegetschweiler.Goble p.996 Based on a classic 1849 novel by

Jeremias Gotthelf Albert Bitzius (4 October 179722 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist; best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Biography Bitzius was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. The Bitzius family had once belonged to the Bernese patrici ...

, it was made as a sequel to the hit 1954 film '' Uli the Farmhand''. The film was shot at the

Rosenhof Studios Rosenhof is a hamlet in Coulee Rural Municipality No. 136, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet is located on Range Rd. 123 4 km south of Highway 363, about 15 km south of Swift Current. Demographics In 2010, Rosenhof had a population ...

in Zurich and on location across Switzerland.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1955 films 1950s historical comedy-drama films Swiss historical comedy-drama films Swiss German-language films Films directed by Franz Schnyder Films based on Swiss novels Films set in the 19th century Films set in the Alps Adaptations of works by Jeremias Gotthelf Swiss black-and-white films {{Switzerland-film-stub