Die Entstehung der Eidgenossenschaft (1924)

Directed in 1924 by Emil Harder, a former Swiss baker who emigrated to the United States and converted to cinematographic art, the film aims to retrace the founding of the Swiss Confederation on the model of The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith (1915). The first major production in the history of Swiss cinema, it was initiated by the company Sunshine-Film through a fundraising campaign in the columns of the Amerikanische Schweizer-Zeitung.