The Traitor (2024)
Landesverräter
Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to escape a suffocating environment that annihilates any kind of creative or artistic impetus, Ernst sells information about the Swiss army to a Nazi spy by the name of August Schmid, who charms and manipulates him. When Ernst’s crime is uncovered, he is sentenced to death for espionage and treason, becoming the first Swiss citizen to be executed.
- Date of release
- 2024-10-24
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Michael Krummenacher
Casting
- Dimitri Krebs — Ernst Schrämli
- Fabian Hinrichs — August Schmid
- Luna Wedler — Gerti Zanelli
- Stefan Gubser — Roman Graf
- Ernst C. Sigrist — Egon Schrämli
- Jonathan Ferrari — Max Hofstätter
- Roger Bonjour — Captain Keller
- Flurin Giger — Johann Riebli
- Robert Hunger-Bühler — Richter Weng
- Sina Martens — Else Schmid
- Pierre Siegenthaler — Police Captain Seiler
- Stéphane Maeder — Konrad Zanelli
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