Swiss heroes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Swiss heroes |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German , German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 94 minutes |
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| Director | Peter Luisi |
| script | Peter Luisi, Jürgen Ladenburger |
| production | Aminta Iseppi, Peter Luisi |
| music |
Christian Schlumpf , Martin Skalsky , Michael Duss |
| camera | Nicolò Settegrana |
| cut | Patrick Zähringer, Bigna Tomschin |
| occupation | |
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Schweizer Helden is a 2014 film by the Swiss director Peter Luisi, who is also responsible for the script and production .
content
The middle-class housewife Sabine Zündel ( Esther Gemsch ), who has recently been separated , and looking for family and social recognition in the run-up to Christmas, offers the director ( Kamil Krejčí ) of a remote asylum transit center in central Switzerland with the asylum seekers housed there free of charge to work out a psychodrama , which the inmates show no interest in. So she decides to rehearse an abridged version of Schiller's Tell and perform it publicly , despite the initial reservations of a retired actor friend ( Klaus Wildbolz ) . But immediately before the premiere, “Punishment”, the intended protagonist (Komi Mizrajim Togbougou), is deported as a result of a report in the local press . However, a substitute actor is found, and a benevolent audience finally experiences a multicultural performance of the Rütli oath and the apple shot .
Director Luisi initially planned to have all the roles of the asylum seekers portrayed in the film by “real” refugees, but then decided to cast professional actors.
criticism
"The Swiss founding myth, as a German saw it, is becoming a global tragic comedy, and new life is blossoming out of the ruins."
"Such a use of the Helvetic national myth, brushed against the grain, is certainly gently subversive and the fact that Peter Luisi developed the script together with an Iraqi asylum seeker is remarkable."
Awards
Schweizer Helden was awarded the audience award of CHF 30,000 at the Locarno Film Festival in 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Statement by Peter Luisi
- ↑ The home soil fluctuates, Tages-Anzeiger , August 14, 2014
- ^ "Swiss Heroes" Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 12, 2014