Cinema of Switzerland

Cinema of Switzerland

Piazza Grande in Locarno during the Locarno Film Festival
Number of screens 547 (2011)[1]
 • Per capita 7.7 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributors United International Pictures (Schweiz) Gmbh 19.0%
Walt Disney Studio (Schweiz) Ag 18.1%
Warner Bros. Pictures 15.8%[2]
Produced feature films (2011)[3]
Fictional 31 (36.9%)
Animated 1 (1.2%)
Documentary 52 (61.9%)
Number of admissions (2011)[4]
Total 14,896,020
 • Per capita 2 (2012)[5]
National films 637,554 (4.3%)
Gross Box Office (2011)[4]
Total CHF 231 million
National films CHF 9.06 million (3.9%)

Cinema of Switzerland refers to the film industry based in Switzerland.

As of 2014, The Swissmakers (1978) (Die Schweizermacher) is the highest grossing Swiss movie of all time [6]

Notable personalities

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Country Profiles". Europa Cinemas. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  6. ↑ Statistik Schweiz - Die erfolgreichsten Schweizer Filme. Bfs.admin.ch (2014-04-30). Retrieved on 2014-05-12.

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