Swiss Film Award 2021: Lilo Pulver receives Honorary Award
18.02.2021
The Honorary Swiss Film Award 2021 goes to Liselotte Schmid-Pulver, better known as Lilo Pulver. The award is honouring a Swiss actress who also had an international career. This year’s Swiss Film Award ceremony will take place online. It will be broadcast as a livestream on Friday, March 26, 2021, via the Swiss Film Award website: www.quartz.ch.
Lilo Pulver was born in 1929 in Bern. She attended drama school in Bern and soon became a popular actress in Switzerland and Germany. In 1958 she played the leading role in Douglas Sirk’s film “A Time to Love and a Time to Die”, which marked the beginning of her international film career. In 1961 Billy Wilder engaged her for his comedy “One, Two, Three” and she appeared in numerous dramas thereafter, including Jacques Rivette’s “The Nun”.
Lilo Pulver has left her mark on film history and received great critical acclaim for her humorous acting style and her subtly audacious interpretations. In 1964 she was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1980 she was presented the Honorary German Film Award. In Switzerland she also became famous in her role as Vreneli in the Gotthelf adaptations «Uli der Knecht» and «Uli der Pächter». With the Honorary Swiss Film Award, endowed with CHF 30 000, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (SFOC) acknowledges Lilo Pulver’s contribution to international film history from the 1950s to the present.
SWISS FILMS, February 17, 2021