Fusilier Wipf


Fusilier Wipf is a 1938 Swiss drama film directed by Hermann Haller and Leopold Lindtberg and starring Paul Hubschmid, Heinrich Gretler and Robert Trösch. When the First World War breaks out, a hairdresser's assistant in neutral Switzerland is mobilised for border protection duty. Serving in the army, he grows from a boy into a man and develops a greater love for his country.
The film was part of the intellectual spiritual defence of Switzerland during the era as the country maintained a neutral stance in the years leading up to World War II, which began a year after the film was released.
On the occasion of the official opening of the new legation of the Swiss Confederation at the Hôtel de Besenval in Paris on 24 January 1939, Minister Walter Stucki showed the film ''Fusilier Wipf.''

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