URSULA - Living Elsewhere

When Ursula B. came into the world deaf and blind in 1951, her mother abandoned her immediately after giving birth. The doctors in Zurich did not expect her to live long. But despite such prognoses, Ursula is now a 60-year-old woman, cared for with a great deal of affection for five decades by Anita U., her foster mother. Where does Ursula get her strength to live? And where does Anita get the energy for her relationship with Ursula? In stirring images, the director brings a story to the screen in which human love is ultimately the only link to Ursula’s elsewhere, to her enigmatic universe without sight or sound.

Rolf Lyssy
Born and resident in Zürich. Photographer, Cameraman and Film Editor. Filmmakers since late 1970ies.

Filmography
1968                     "Eugen heisst wohlgeboren" (fiction)
1970/71                "Vita Parcoeur" (short)
1974                     "Konfrontation" (fiction)
1978                     "The Swissmakers" (fiction)    
1981                     "Kassettenliebe" (fiction)
1983                     "Teddy Bär" (fiction)
1989                     "Leo Sonnyby" (fiction)
1991/92                "Ein Trommler in der Wüste" (documentary)
1999                     "Leo Sternbach" (video portrait)
2002                     "Writing against Death", Coo-director Dominique Rub) (documentary)
2004                     „Wäg vo de Gass“ (documentary)
2005                     „Die Vitusmacher“ (documentary)
2008                     „Hard(ys) Life“ (documentary)
2011                     „Ursula – Living Elsewhere“ (documentary)

Stage productions
1987                     "Alles klar" by Urs Widmer, Theater am Neumarkt Zürich
1991                     "Und iiich" by Maria Pacôme, Hechtplatztheater Zürich
1992                     "Jeanmaire – ein Stück Schweiz" by Urs Widmer, Theater in der Bundesstadt Bern

Books
2001                     "Swiss Paradise", An autobiographical report
2007                     „Wunschkolumnen“ (Co-author Urs Heinz Aerni)

86 min. and 53 min.

Language:
Swiss German

Subtitles:
German

Production:
Doc Productions GmbH, Zürich

www.ursula-film.ch