Ruth Waldburger
Producer
Ruth Waldburger made a name for herself in the late 1970s as a dedicated production manager of numerous Swiss films by a new generation of filmmakers. In 1982 she became co-owner of the production company Xanadu Film. Together with other young producers, Waldburger realized a number of films by up-and coming filmmakers from Switzerland and abroad.
As owner and producer of the newly-established production company Vega Film, Waldburger embarked in 1988 on a close collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard, producing eleven of his films. Shortly after, she produced Tom Dicillo's debut film, JOHNNY SUEDE, with the future Hollywood star Brad Pitt in one of his first leading roles. The film won the Pardo d'oro of the Locarno Film Festival in 1991. Ruth Waldburger established herself as the most important Swiss producer in Europe working with renowned international directors such as Alain Tanner, Alain Resnais, Robert Frank, Béla Tarr, Silvio Soldini, Gianni Amelio, Noémie Lvovsk, Barbet Schroeder and many more.
Her most recent successes include the films SISTER by Ursula Meier ( Silver Bear Berlinale 2012), MY LITTLE SISTER by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond (5 Swiss Film Awards 2020), and the coproduction TIDES by Tim Fehlbaum (4 German Film Awards 2021).
In 2023, Ruth Waldburger receives the Honorary Award of the Swiss Film Academy.
Filmography
(a selection)
Producer
- 2023
- Let Her Kill You by Jérôme Dassier
- 2021
- Monday um Zehn by Mareille Klein
- 2021
- Tides by Tim Fehlbaum
- 2020
- Schwesterlein by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
- 2018
- Fortuna by Germinal Roaux
- 2018
- Dévoilées by Jacob Berger
- 2016
- Un Juif pour l'exemple by Jacob Berger
- 2015
- Vecchi pazzi by Sabine Boss
- 2015
- Hotel Terminus by Dorthe Wölner-Hanssen
- 2015
- Amnesia by Barbet Schroeder
- 2014
- Über-Ich und Du by Benjamin Heisenberg
- 2014
- Liebe und Zufall by Fredi M. Murer
- 2013
- Der Grosse Kanton by Viktor Giacobbo
- 2013
- L'amour est un crime parfait by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
- 2012
- Sister by Ursula Meier
- 2012
- Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes
- 2011
- The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr
- 2011
- Hell by Tim Fehlbaum
- 2011
- Fliegende Fische by Güzin Kar
- 2010
- La petite chambre by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
- 2010
- Cosa voglio di più by Silvio Soldini
- 2010
- Film Socialisme by Jean-Luc Godard
- 2009
- Baba's Song by Wolfgang Panzer
- 2007
- 1 journée by Jacob Berger
- 2006
- Cannabis by Niklaus Hilber
- 2005
- Undercover by Sabine Boss
- 2004
- Notre musique by Jean-Luc Godard
- 2002
- L'adversaire by Nicole Garcia
- 2002
- Brucio nel vento by Silvio Soldini
- 2000
- Komiker by Markus Imboden
- 2000
- Sanyu by Robert Frank
- 1999
- F. est un salaud by Marcel Gisler
- 1996
- Katzendiebe by Markus Imboden
- 1994
- Satantango by Béla Tarr