Grounding - the last days of Swissair

Movie
Original title	Grounding - the last days of Swissair
Country of production	Switzerland
original language	Swiss German
Publishing year	2006
length	120 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Michael Steiner Tobias Fueter
script	Jürg Brändli , Michael Sauter
production	Peter-Christian Fueter , Pascal Najadi
music	Adrian Frutiger
camera	Filip Zumbrunn
cut	Tobias Fueter
occupation
Real people: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart : Mario Corti Gilles Tschudi : Marcel Ospel Rainer Guldener : Lukas Mühlemann Michael Neuenschwander : André Dosé László I. Kish : Moritz Suter Katharina von Bock : Jaqualyn Fouse Walter Hess : Kaspar Villiger Niklaus Scheibli : Peter Siegenthaler Georg Scharegg : Georges Schorderet Fictional people: Pasquale Aleardi : Peter Landolt Stefanie Japp : Susanne Gasser Enzo Scanzi : Luigi Dini Leonardo Nigro : Sergio Dini Hans Heinz Moser : Hanspeter peace Stefan Gubser : Adrian Simmen Lukas Schaller : Luca Gasser Peter Jecklin : Rico Prader

Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair is a Swiss movie about the last days of the Swiss airline Swissair .

action

The film is about the temporary cessation of Swissair flight operations on October 2, 2001 and tells how it came about. At the same time, the film portrays the fate of the last boss of the airline, Mario Corti, and the fate of the people affected by the decline of Swissair.

success

On the day of the theatrical release in German-speaking Switzerland , on January 19, 2006, Grounding was shown in the program of the Solothurn Film Festival. At the same time, it ran to around 50 German-speaking cities and attracted over 50,000 people to the cinema on the first weekend alone. With 378,000 admissions, Grounding was the best-attended Swiss film in 2006.

Reviews

“A film cannot really do it justice in all its facets, and so“ Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair ”has to accept the accusation from various quarters of describing the story in a simplistic way. The accusation that Marcel Ospel from the UBS bank is not the only one to blame, as suggested by the film, makes sense [...] Most feelings are attempted by “Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair” using fictional episodes about pilots To describe flight attendants and a cook at Swissair. During these fictional insertions, the otherwise superbly made film weakens a little. Alcohol problems, troubled mother-son relationships and other relationship and work relationship boxes unfortunately never come above the most clichéd soap opera level. "

- René Malgo : film starts

Web links

• Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Critique of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team: Grounding - The last days of Swissair . Retrieved February 3, 2016.