吉赛勒·安索格，Gisèle Dietrich was born on 9 February 1923 in the French Jura. Although she wouild have preferred to study art, she studied pharmacy in Lausanne. She finished her studies in 1948. Gisèle met Nag and the couple became increasingly interested in the cinema. They decided to make marionette films after seeing Jiri Trnka's famous Czech Legends.The couple married and settled in Zurich in 1952, where Nag was already working as a mechanical engineer. Zurich at the time was a hub of film creation in Switzerland; this influenced the Ansorges' decision to enter film making.