Max Haufler , where Haufler's performance as the bum Barbarossa stayed in the memory of generations of Swiss people. In 1962, Orson Welles casted Haufler for "Le proces/The Trial", and in 1965, he appeared in Bernhard Wicki's "Morituri" at the side of Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner. Haufler's last acting appearance was in Peter Lilienthal's "Abschied". Haufler, who directed 9 feature-length movies between 1937 and 1950, tried for almost ten years in vain to bring up the money for his autobiographical movie "Der Stumme", based on the novel by Swiss author Otto F. Walter. Under the overwhelming impression of having failed and after having been left by his second wife, Haufler hung himself up in his small apartment at Neptunstrasse in Zurich.
