Foreigners who apply to become Swiss citizens have no easy task - especially when the police lets Bodmer loose to check upon their background, their integration in the society, and the ...
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Title: The Swissmakers (1978)
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Emil Steinberger | ... | Moritz Fischer |
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Walo Lüönd | ... | Max Bodmer |
| Beatrice Kessler | ... | Milena Vakulic | |
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Wolfgang Stendar | ... | Dr. Helmut Starke |
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Hilde Ziegler | ... | Gertrud Starke |
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Claudio Caramaschi | ... | Franceso Grimolli |
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Silvia Jost | ... | Sandra Grimolli |
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Ulrich Beck | ... | Sprachlaborlehrer |
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Josi Berlinger | ||
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Gigi Bertolini | ||
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Tino Bertrand | ||
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Dore De Rosa | ||
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Paul Epstein | ||
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Monika Koch | ||
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Foreigners who apply to become Swiss citizens have no easy task - especially when the police lets Bodmer loose to check upon their background, their integration in the society, and the possible danger they represent to the orderliness and cleanliness of the country. Bodmer gets a new assistant to help him corner unsuitable applicants. Very soon, a couple of conformist German physicians, a pretty Eastern European dancer, and the inevitable (and politically troublesome) Italian immigrant and his family start shooting themselves in the foot in their attempts to get the red passport with a white cross. Written by Eduardo Casais <eduardo.casais@research.nokia.com>
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In 1970s the Yugoslav passport was one of the best in the world for travel. As stated in Munevera Hadzisehovic's book, "A Muslim Woman in Tito's Yugoslavia", the Yugoslav passport has been described as highly regarded and that with it immigrants were able to find jobs among European firms trading with the East and other countries. It was also described as 'one of the most convenient in the world, as it was one of the few with which a person could travel freely through both the East and West' during the cold war (Ruud Van Dijk's "Encyclopedia of the Cold War"). See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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SwitzerlandRelease Date:
12 October 1979 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Hogyan csináljunk svájcit? See more »Filming Locations:
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Hilarious with several laugh-out-loud moments, it's a biting satire on a topic that was unknown to me until recently. Simple, unpretentious, even unambitious, but extremely enjoyable, and a time capsule of the 70s.