Desc: Trilogie 1848 - Der Galgensteiger: Directed by Xavier Koller. With Hilmar Thate, Angelica Domröse, Günter Lamprecht, Hans Heinz Moser. The film takes us back to the turbulent time of the formation of modern Switzerland 170 years ago and describes how Jakob Rudolf Steiger went from being a liberal revolutionary to the highest-ranking Swiss in the new Confederation.