General Sutter

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General Sutter
Directed byBenny Fasnacht
Written byCaroline Felix Brun
Produced byBenny Fasnacht
Starring
Edited by
Music byPhilippe Blumenthal
Production
company
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
92 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageGerman


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.