The German actor again brings searing magnetism to Lubo, playing a member of midcentury Switzerland’s nomadic Yenish community, whose family and peaceful existence are torn from him by national ...

Actor Franz Rogowski's magnetism is spread too thin in Giorgio Diritti's unduly episodic evocation of Switzerland's "Kinder der Landstrasse" ("Children of the Road") scandal. But on the road later ...

The opening has Lubo playing a wild bear that’s eventually subdued, at which point he emerges from the animal costume in semi-drag, playing a jaunty tune on his harmonica and charming the ...

Clean, green Switzerland, land of chocolate, cuckoo clocks and direct democracy, is revealed to have a history of racial abuse as ugly as any other in Giorgio Diritti’s rolling epic Lubo ...

There is no faulting the intensity he brings to the role of Lubo, a Yenish travelling entertainer who is used and abused by a state that requires him to serve it – as a border guard – while ...