Flying Home

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Sound Mixer	Patrick Becker Peter Zwierko
	Sound	Jürg von Allmen
	Music	Daniel Almada
Directing	Director	Tobias Wyss
Crew	Cinematography	Tobias Wyss Andreas Birkle
	Script	Tobias Wyss
Production	Producer	Hercli Bundi
Editing	Editor	Mirjam Krakenberger
Visual Effects	Compositing Supervisor	Severin Kuhn
Department	Role	Name

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