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Filmmaker · Switzerland

Fredi M. Murer

Alfred Melchior Murer, known as Fredi M. Murer, was born on 1 October 1940 in Beckenried, in the canton of Nidwalden, and grew up in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. He entered the Zurich school of applied arts in 1959, studied drawing there and then moved on to photography, and began filming in the mid-sixties. After a period of study in the United States, in 1975, he settled in Zurich. He was president of the association of Swiss filmmakers from 1992 to 1996; Locarno awarded him its prize for his whole career in 2019, and Swiss cinema its honorary prize in 2022.

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