Stefan Schwietert was born in Esslingen in 1961 and grew up in Basel/Switzerland. He attended the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin and graduated in 1991 with "Jumping Out The Clouds" ("Sprung aus den Wolken"). He has been working as a freelance filmmaker and editor in Basel and Berlin since 1991. His other films are: "The Topolino Project" ("Das Topolino Projekt", short, 1986), "Tapez 36-15 Code Cobra" (short, 1987), "Fualna 88", "The Last Ten Days of a Campagne" (video, 1988), "Long Shadow - Jura Soyfer and His Contemporaries" ("Der Schatten ist lang", documentary, 1994), "A Tickle In The Heart" (documentary, 1996) and "El Acordeón del diablo" (2000).

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