Schwizgebel in 2017 Georges Schwizgebel (born 28 September 1944) is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film The Man with No Shadow (L'Homme sans ombre) won various awards. Biography[edit] Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Canton of Bern (Bernese Jura), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.[1] From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Bea