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
Directors
- Jean-Paul Cardinaux
- Richard Dembo
- Charles-Georges Duvanel
- Tim Fehlbaum
- Kurt Früh
- Marcel Gisler
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Claude Goretta
- Elena Hazanov
- Thomas Koerfer
- Xavier Koller
- Markus Imhoof
- Leopold Lindtberg
- Fredi Murer
- Dominique Othenin-Girard
- Franz Schnyder
- Casimir Sivan
- Alain Tanner
- Yves Yersin
Producers
- August Kern
- Lazar Wechsler
Actors
- Ursula Andress
- Anne-Marie Blanc
- Sibylle Blanc
- Zarli Carigiet
- Eliane Chappuis
- Bruno Ganz
- Heinrich Gretler
- Emil Hegetschweiler
- Max Haufler
- Marthe Keller
- Maximilian Schell
Notes and references
- 1 2 "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ↑ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ↑ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- 1 2 "Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ↑ "Country Profiles". Europa Cinemas. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ↑ Statistik Schweiz - Die erfolgreichsten Schweizer Filme. Bfs.admin.ch (2014-04-30). Retrieved on 2014-05-12.
Bibliography
- (French) Olivier Moeschler, Cinéma suisse. Une politique culturelle en action : l'État, les professionnels, les publics, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, collection "Le savoir suisse", 2011.
See also
External links
- Swiss Films
- Swiss DVD
- artfilm.ch Swiss Films in the theatres, television, DVD and VOD
- Swiss Film Directory
- All Swiss Films since 1896
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