General Sutter

1999 Swiss film
  • Hannes Schmidhauser
  • Wolfram Berger
  • Werner Bachofen
  • Rahman Deshongh
  • Raul Subia
Edited by
  • Jean Merrouche
  • Benny Fasnacht
Music byPhilippe Blumenthal
Production
company
  • Fasnacht & Partner AG
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
92 minutesCountrySwitzerlandLanguageGerman


General Sutter is a 1999 Swiss historical film directed by Benny Fasnacht and starring Werner Bachofen, Hannes Schmidhauser and Rahman Dalrymple. It is based on the life of John August Sutter, a German-born Swiss figure who participated in the American gold rush in the years before the American Civil War.

  • Official Website with trailer
  • General Sutter at IMDb


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