Kleine Scheidegg (film)

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Kleine Scheidegg
Directed by Richard Schweizer
Written byRichard Schweizer
Starring
Cinematography Richard Angst
Music by Robert Blum
Release date
  • 1937 (1937)
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageSwiss German

Kleine Scheidegg is a 1937 Swiss drama film directed by Richard Schweizer and starring Susanne Baader, Leopold Biberti and Emil Hegetschweiler. It is set around the Kleine Scheidegg Pass in Switzerland. It is part of the genre of mountain films, popular in the 1930s.

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