Swiss Film Award 2021: Lilo Pulver receives the Honorary Award
The Honorary Award of the 2021 Swiss Film Prize goes to Liselotte Schmid-Pulver, better known as Lilo Pulver. This award honors a Swiss actress who also made her career internationally. The award ceremony will take place on March 26, 2021 as a livestream on Quartz.ch.
Lilo Pulver was born in Bern in 1929, attended the acting school in Bern and soon became a popular actress in Switzerland and Germany. Her leading role in the film "Time to Live and Time to Die" by Douglas Sirk launched her international film career.
Pulver left her mark on film history with her play full of humor and with her subtly revolting interpretations, and received great critical acclaim. In 1964, she was nominated for the Golden Globes. In 1980, she received the Honorary Award of the German Film Prize. With the Honorary Prize of the Swiss Film Award, endowed with 30,000 Swiss francs, the Federal Office of Culture FOC now also honors Lilo Pulver's contribution to international film history from the 1950s to the present day.
Nominees week
From March 22 to 28, 2021, the films nominated for the Swiss Film Awards will be screened online as part of the "Week of the Nominees" program organized by the Association "Quartz" Genève Zurich. www.quartz.ch.
Award ceremony in livestream
The Swiss Film Awards ceremony will take place via livestream on Friday, March 26, 2021. The event will be recorded in the studios of RTS in Geneva and broadcast via Quartz.ch sent.
This tribute to Swiss filmmaking is organized by the BAK in partnership with SRG SSR and the Association "Quartz" Genève Zürich and in collaboration with Swiss Films, the Swiss Film Academy and the Solothurn Film Festival.
