Ready, set, Charlie!

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Movie
German title Ready, set, Charlie!
Original title Ready, set, Charlie!
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Publishing year 2003
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mike Eschmann
script David Keller ,
Michael Sauter
production Lukas Hobi
music Manuel Stagars
camera Roland Schmid
cut Mike Schaerer
occupation

Ready, set, Charlie! is a Swiss comedy film directed by Mike Eschmann from 2003 . The film about the recruit school was at times the most successful Swiss production since Die Schweizermacher from 1978. After its success in Switzerland, it was also shown in the USA , Great Britain , Russia and Germany . The French title is À vos marques, prêts, Charlie! , the English Ready, steady, Charlie! .

action

Just before Antonio Carrera can swear eternal loyalty to his bride Laura Moretti , two policemen come into the church and announce to the assembled relatives from Sicily and Switzerland that Carrera has not obeyed the marching orders and is immediately taken to the recruit school.

But Carrera wants to go back to Laura. Carrera and recruit Weber , his only confidante, forge a plan with only one goal: Carrera must get him kicked out of the recruit school. Weber discovers that recruit Michelle Bluntschi is the illegitimate daughter of Captain Reiker . Plan B (luntschi) is as follows: Carrera should go to bed with Bluntschi because sex is forbidden in military facilities. They hope that Carrera will be dismissed from the service, but the plan does not work as expected.

At first it does not look like Carrera and Bluntschi will warm up to each other despite efforts on his part, but when he gives her his rifle under his name so that she can fulfill her wish to do armed service and he has to be in a holding cell for it breaks the ice. They sleep together in the barracks kitchen, but Laura shows up completely unannounced on the day of the visit, which makes Bluntschi jealous. At the following meeting, Carrera's comrades tell his fiancée Plan B (luntschi). Laura calls her father, who immediately calls his Sicilian relatives on the scene. In the field exercise fusiliers vs. Grenadiers come to a confrontation. Laura and the relatives appear just as Carrera and Bluntschi have approached again. Finally one of the Sicilians shoots at Carrera, but Bluntschi catches the ball. During the subsequent scramble, Laura falls in love with Carrera's comrade Philipp Schaffner . In the end, Laura and Schaffner get married, but Bluntschi and Carrera, who are now pregnant, stay away from the ceremony.

background

The production was initially supported by the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (VBS), but later criticized for the unrealistic, comical depiction of the recruiting school from the VBS point of view.

continuation

In June 2011, for the tenth anniversary of the film in 2013, a sequel to the film was published under the title Attention, get set, WK! announced. Directed to Oliver Rihs lead from a screenplay written by Güzin Kar . This film had its theatrical release in Switzerland on October 24, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 20 most successful Swiss films in Switzerland: Cumulative number of cinema-goers 1976 - 2009 ( Memento of November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Federal Statistical Office, accessed on January 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ Now comes «Ready, ready, Charlie! 2 » Article on blick.ch from October 1, 2013