Robert Boner
Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer
Born in 1949 in Lauerz, Switzerland. He worked as a film technician in various capacities starting in 1967. After initially working as a producer at Filmkollektiv in Zurich, he founded his own production companies SAGA Production and Ciné Manufacture in Lausanne and Paris. In his long career, he not only produced over fifty fiction films but was also active in the field of documentaries and animated films. In addition to his multifaceted work as a producer, he was committed to the further development of Swiss film policy, was a cofounder of the GARP association, was involved in the creation of the Pacte de l'audiovisuel and in the introduction of Succès Cinéma before becoming the first Secretary General of Cinéforom in 2011. He is recipient of the 2024 Swiss Film Prize Honorary Award.
Filmography
(a selection)
Director
- 1974
- Arbeiterehe by Robert Boner
Screenwriter
- 1999
- La beauté sur la terre by Antoine Plantevin
- 1996
- Capitaine au long cours by Bianca Conti Rossini
- 1994
- Adultère (mode d'emploi) by Christine Pascal
- 1974
- Arbeiterehe by Robert Boner
Cinematographer
- 1977
- Raimon - Lieder gegen die Angst by Richard Dindo
- 1976
- Die Erschiessung des Landesverräters Ernst S. by Richard Dindo, Niklaus Meienberg
Producer
- 2024
- Le volcan et le bébé by Danielle Jaeggi
- 2019
- Le renard et l'oisille by Samuel Guillaume, Frédéric Guillaume
- 2010
- Low Cost (Claude Jutra) by Lionel Baier
- 2010
- Cleveland Versus Wall Street by Jean-Stéphane Bron
- 2009
- Quentin et Ferdinand by Robin Harsch
- 2009
- Traders by Jean-Stéphane Bron
- 2009
- Complices by Frédéric Mermoud
- 2008
- Un autre homme by Lionel Baier
- 2007
- Le créneau by Frédéric Mermoud
- 2007
- Max & Co by Samuel Guillaume, Frédéric Guillaume
- 2006
- Comme des voleurs by Lionel Baier
- 2006
- Pour aller au ciel il faut mourir by Djameshed Usmonov
- 2004
- Poids léger by Jean-Pierre Améris
- 2004
- Garçon stupide by Lionel Baier
- 2004
- Bonhomme de chemin by Frédéric Mermoud
- 2003
- Mais im Bundeshuus by Jean-Stéphane Bron
- 2002
- Des yeux qui écoutent – Jean-François Antonioli et la Philharmonie de Timisoara by Walter Wehmeyer
- 2002
- Jour de marché by Jacqueline Veuve
- 2002
- Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch, pour mémoire by Lionel Baier
- 2002
- La parade (notre histoire) by Lionel Baier
- 2002
- Macho Blues by Jacques Akchoti
- 2002
- Pas les flics, pas les noirs, pas les blancs by Ursula Meier
- 2001
- Thelma by Pierre-Alain Meier
- 2001
- Newsman by Yvan Butler
- 2001
- Travailler c'est trop dur by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
- 2000
- La vocation de l’écoute – Musique et spiritualité sur l’île d’Orta by Walter Wehmeyer
- 2000
- Celui au pasteur by Lionel Baier
- 1999
- La beauté sur la terre by Antoine Plantevin
- 1999
- Genet à Chatila by Richard Dindo
- 1999
- Mignon à croquer by Lionel Baier
- 1999
- La bonne conduite by Jean-Stéphane Bron
- 1998
- L'enfant et les loups by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz
- 1998
- D'or et d'oublis by Yvan Butler
- 1997
- Flammen im Paradies by Markus Imhoof
- 1997
- Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-42 by Jacqueline Veuve
- 1997
- Connu de nos services by Jean-Stéphane Bron
- 1996
- Des nouvelles du bon Dieu by Didier Le Pêcheur
- 1996
- Capitaine au long cours by Bianca Conti Rossini
- 1996
- Entre frère et soeur by Isabelle Blanc
- 1994
- Le ciel et la boue by Frédéric Gonseth
- 1994
- Adultère (mode d'emploi) by Christine Pascal
- 1994
- Ernesto «Che» Guevara: le Journal de Bolivie by Richard Dindo
- 1991
- Arthur Rimbaud, une biographie by Richard Dindo
- 1981
- Max Frisch-Journal I-III by Richard Dindo
- 1980
- Le chemin perdu by Patricia Moraz
- 1980
- Sauve qui peut (la vie) by Jean-Luc Godard
- 1979
- Les petites fugues by Yves Yersin
- 1977
- Les Indiens sont encore loin by Patricia Moraz
- 1977
- San Gottardo by Villi Hermann
- 1977
- Raimon - Lieder gegen die Angst by Richard Dindo
- 1974
- Arbeiterehe by Robert Boner
Location Sound Mixer
- 1996
- Une Saison au Paradis by Richard Dindo
- 1973
- Schweizer im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg by Richard Dindo