The Traitor (2024)
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.
- Released
- 2024-10-24
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Michael Krummenacher
- TMDB rating
- 5.6/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Dimitri Krebs as Ernst Schrämli
- Fabian Hinrichs as August Schmid
- Luna Wedler as Gerti Zanelli
- Stefan Gubser as Roman Graf
- Ernst C. Sigrist as Egon Schrämli
- Jonathan Ferrari as Max Hofstätter
- Roger Bonjour as Captain Keller
- Flurin Giger as Johann Riebli
- Robert Hunger-Bühler as Richter Weng
- Sina Martens as Else Schmid
- Pierre Siegenthaler as Police Captain Seiler
- Stéphane Maeder as Konrad Zanelli