The Swissmakers
- Emil Steinberger: Moritz Fischer
- Walo Lüönd: Max Bodmer
- Beatrice Kessler: Milena Vakulic
- Claudio Caramaschi: Franceso Grimolli
- Wolfgang Stendar: Dr. Helmut Starke
- Hilde Ziegler: Gertrude Strong
The Swissmakers (1978, Rolf Lyssy, with Emil Steinberger, Walo Lüönd and Wolfgang Stendar ) is a film that takes the Swiss naturalization targeted. Aliens must prove that they are more Swiss than the Swiss; Naturalization officials show up as merciless bureaucrats.
The film was made in the wake of the four Schwarzenbach initiatives of the 1970s. "The Swiss maker " is measured by the number of admissions, the most successful Swiss film since statistical records began. 940'103 spectators went to the movies at that time ( 6.5 million inhabitants ).
Action
A German psychiatrist and his wife, a Communist Italian who works in a bakery factory on the assembly line and is married to a Ticino, as well as a dancer Yugoslav want to get Swiss citizenship. All of them have a certain self-interest - the psychiatrist can leave his senior position in a clinic and set up his own practice only as a Swiss citizen, the Italians tried the high unemployment rate in Italy to escape, and the dancer wants to be a citizen of the country in which they are born and grew up. On the other side of the narrow-minded and petty-bourgeois naturalization police officer Max Bodmer occurs as Spies citizens. His assistant Moritz Fischer is the liberal opposition of Bodmer, he even starts a relationship with the dancer.
The foreigners adapt, so that they are as a Schweizer. The Italians denied his union activities, learn Swiss history and walks with the family in their Sunday best on the lakeshore promenade, rightly suspecting that he is being watched. The German couple hoists day the Swiss flag in the garden and practices in an evening course Swiss German. Only the dancer, in language and demeanor practically Swiss, is not pretending.
With great difficulty, the candidates make it to the final severe hearing before the Commission naturalization naturalization. The Italian is the question, " If William Tell were alive today, who would he shoot? " Asked, but he pulls tails of the affair. Only when he admits his planned participation in a workers' demonstration, he believes to be rejected. But it is obviously judged his steadfastness and not his politics.
The Yugoslavian dancer comes the rejection by Bodmer before because it receives a commitment in Holland and their application for naturalization to retract. Your new friend Moritz Fischer left the service at the Naturalisation Board.
The end of the film is a visit Bodmer with his new assistant at a new candidate, an American musician ( in a cameo Bill Ramsey ), who both in greeting plays an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Swiss national anthem on the saxophone.
Musical
2010 was based on motives of the film, the musical "The Swiss makers ." It was performed in the Maag Music Hall in Zurich.