In 1939, Walter Otto Wyss emigrated to the USA after a tragic car accident. There he developed a revolutionary hybrid automobile that was never produced. After a love affair with an African-American dancer in Los Angeles he lived in Tokyo at the end of the 1950s as a recluse and learned Japanese. He spent the last 30 years of his life alone on Hawaii. Despite many opportunities to fulfil his dreams of freedom, success and security, he can never quite set himself free from Switzerland, his mother and his self-reproach and misses the chance to find happiness. Walter's nephew, director Tobias Wyss, tells the story of his uncle in a personal manner, making use of moving photographs and videos from the family archive. The Zurich director reconstructs the contradictory biography of his uncle in seven episodes.
Tobias Wyss
Director
White Boy70%
Tabloid64%
The U.S. vs. John Lennon67%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Class of ‘9271%
Heart of a Dog65%
180° South72%
Being James Bond77%
Capital in the Twenty-First Century65%
Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now77%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Extremis69%
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man68%
The Devil and Daniel Johnston77%
Deliver Us from Evil71%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
Crossfire Hurricane70%
Maria by Callas73%
In Search of the Last Action Heroes70%
My Mom Jayne80%
