The Swiss makers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Swiss makers |
| Original title | The Swiss makers |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Lyssy |
| script |
Rolf Lyssy , Christa Maerker |
| production | Marcel Hoehn |
| music | Jonas C. Haefeli |
| camera | Fritz E. Maeder |
| cut | Georg Janett |
| occupation | |
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Die Schweizermacher (1978, by Rolf Lyssy , with Emil Steinberger , Walo Lüönd and Wolfgang Stendar ) is a film that targets Swiss naturalization practice . Foreigners have to prove that they are more Swiss than Swiss ; Naturalization officers show themselves to be merciless bureaucrats.
The film was made as a follow-up to the four Schwarzenbach initiatives of the 1970s. Measured by the number of moviegoers, “Die Schweizermacher” is the most successful Swiss film since statistical records began. 940,103 viewers saw this film (with 6.5 million inhabitants at the time).
action
A German psychiatrist and his wife, a communist Italian who works on the assembly line in a confectionery factory and is married to a woman from Ticino , and a Yugoslav dancer want to be granted Swiss citizenship . The psychiatrist can only leave his leading position in a clinic and set up his own practice as a Swiss citizen , the Italian tries to avoid the high unemployment in Italy, and the dancer wants to become a citizen of the country in which she was born and raised. On the other hand, the narrow-minded and petty-bourgeois naturalization police officer Max Bodmer appears as a philistine. His assistant Moritz Fischer is Bodmer's liberal contrast; he even begins a relationship with the dancer.
The foreigners adapt so that they are considered over-Swiss. The Italian denies his union activities, learns Swiss history and walks with the family in Sunday clothes on the lake promenade, rightly suspecting that he is being watched. The German couple hoists daily Swiss flag in the garden and exercise in an evening course Swiss German . Only the dancer, practically Swiss in language and demeanor, does not pretend.
After the final, strict hearing before the naturalization commission, the candidates achieve naturalization with great difficulty. The Italian is asked, "If William Tell were alive today, who would he shoot?" posed; however, he cleverly pulls himself out of the affair. Only when he admits his planned participation in a workers' demonstration does he think he will be rejected. But what is obviously judged is his steadfastness and not his political position.
The Yugoslav dancer anticipates Bodmer's rejection because she is given a job in Holland and is withdrawing her application for naturalization. Your new friend Moritz Fischer is leaving the naturalization authority.
The end of the film is a visit by Bodmer and his new assistant to a new candidate, an American musician (in a short appearance Bill Ramsey ), who greets them by playing an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Swiss national anthem on the saxophone.
musical
In 2010, based on the motifs of the film, the musical “ Die Schweizermacher ” was created. It was performed in the Maag MusicHall in Zurich .
Web links
- The Swiss makers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Die Schweizermacher 1978 Film portrait on cyranos.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 25 most successful Swiss films in Switzerland: cumulative number of cinema-goers 1976–2012. ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Federal Statistical Office, accessed on October 17, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.dieschweizermacher.ch ( Memento from July 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
