Philip Maloney comes to the big screen and to television
Published: Monday, Oct 28th 2024, 13:00
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"The hair-raising cases of Philip Maloney" were a Sunday cult on the radio. Now "Maloney" is coming to cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland, before the SRF production also starts on television in January.
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF is planning a total of ten episodes for private detective Philip Maloney. The first three will be released in cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland on November 28, as SRF announced on Monday. These three will then be shown on television from January. SRF plans to spread the other seven over the course of the year. Filming in Zurich and the surrounding area should be completed by the beginning of November.
Marcus Signer ("Wilder", "Der Goalie bin ig") will be seen in the role of private detective Philip Maloney. His opponent, the policeman, will be played by Stefan Kurt ("Die goldenen Jahre", "Frieden"). The film is directed by Michael Schaerer ("Frieden").
The supporting roles in the first three episodes include Bettina Stucky and Gilles Tschudi as the suspicious lawyer couple Schimpf, Martin Vischer as the boss of a cheese factory and Elisa Plüss as sleepwalker Emilia Dobek.
"Die haarstäubenden Fälle des Philip Maloney" ran from 1989 to 2019 and was broadcast every Sunday on DRS3 (now SRF3): "Üble Sache, Maloney". More than 400 episodes were broadcast about the ingenious private detective penned by Roger Graf and plagued by constant money worries. Over the course of 30 years, they became cult. After the death of Maloney narrator Michael Schacht in 2022, Graf declared his series over, but has now worked on the film adaptation of the crime drama persiflage.
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