Frank Garbely

Frank Garbely
© FIFDH Paris 2011
Film director, Journalist, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Cinema/tv, History/society, Media

Frank Garbely, Switzerland, is a freelance investigative reporter and documentary producer. He was born in 1947 in Reckingen, Switzerland. He worked for various newspapers and magazines from 1976 to 1988. Then he was a reporter for Swiss Broadcasting Service (SF & TSR) from 1988 to 1997. He is an independent author and director since 1997. He is based in Geneva.
L'affaire Barschel (Triluna Film/Aië Productions/TSR 2007). Ritz (R-Film/Aië Productions/TSR/ARTE 2007). L'assassinat de Félix Moumié (Triluna Film /Aië Productions /TSR / ARTE 2005). Revenir à Gondo (SF DRS 2001). Le secret d'Evita (Triluna Film /SF DRS/ARTE 1998). Tato, l'étrange destin d'une taupe suisse (SF DRS 1997). Il est auteur de divers ouvrages dont : El viaje del arco iris -Los nazis, la banca suiza y la Argentina de Perón, Zurich/Buenos Aires 2003.

1977-78 Works as correspondent for Tat, a daily newspaper in Western Switzerland. Freelance journalist for Tages-Anzeiger Magazin, Weltwoche, Rote Anneliese, WochenZeitung, Stern (Hamburg), Profil (Vienna).

1988-95 Works freelance for German Swiss Broadcasting Service (SF DRS).

1996-97 Works as news editor at SF DRS.

Since 1997 freelance television journalist and filmmaker.

Filmography / Filmographie

(all documentaries / tous les films sont des documentaires)

(1989) Waffen gegen Geiseln
(1990) In Helvetiens geheimen Diensten (as co-director / co-réalisateur)
(1991) Paul Dickopf- Ein Mann mit Legende (as co-director / co-réalisateur)
(1997) Tato, l'étrange destin d'une taupe suisse
(1997) Hitlers Sklaven (co-director / co-réalisateur)
(1998) Evitas Geheimnis - Die Schweizer Reise
(2001) Gondo - Stationen einer Rückkehr
(2005) L'assassinat de Félix Moumié - L'Afrique sous contrôle
(2009) Hell in Paradise (Die hölle im paradis)

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