Urs Egger  Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director. From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and the Australian "Cinema Papers" as a correspondent from Los Angeles, responsible for reporting on the film industry. He visited the American Film Institute to become a director. Egger died in January 2020 in Berlin, Germany, after suffering a long illness.