Directing debut at the age of 86 – New York Bernese Linda Geiser: “Better late than never”

– New York Bernese Linda Geiser: “Better late than never”

The actress from the Gotthelf films will bring “Tiny Treasure” to the cinema in 2022 – a homage to a tall, short friend.

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«I know this little woman», it pours through Linda Geiser’s head on 6th Avenue in New York in the late 1960s. «Isn’t that former Neighbor child Ruthli Jenzer from the mirror?» She observes a tiny woman who gets excited with the city-famous musician and beggar «Moondog» entertains. «He always stood in the same place in a Viking costume and bat for alms.»

The Bernese actress Linda Geiser, known from the Gotthelf films, as the mother of «Six cummerboys» and as the wife of the patriarch in der Schoggi-Soap «Lüthi and Blanc», has been living i for several years at this pointm Big Apple. she war 1961 because of love came to New York; the relationship soon broke up, but Linda Geiser stayed. On 6th Avenue, she doesn’t dare to interrupt the conversation, and goes on. But the encounter does not leave her in peace. She asks her parents in Bern what she can tell about Ruth Jenzer’s whereaboutsissen. So receivedält Linda Geiser about Ruth’s parents in the mirror, the address of her daughter in New York – «and we came into contact again, which has never been broken off since then».