Curt Truninger

Biography

Curt Truninger (born April 12, 1957, in Lucerne, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, and producer, also active as a painter, journalist, and occasional actor. Influenced early by French cinema, he studied social sciences and art history in Munich and Aberdeen, where he earned a doctorate. Truninger has worked extensively in television and documentary filmmaking for Swiss and German broadcasters, including ZDF and 3sat, and has collaborated with figures such as Richard Avedon. H…