A record-breaking animated film
Boasting a €19.3m budget, animated film Max & Co (working title) by brothers Samuel and Frédéric Guillaumewill be the most expensive animated film ever produced in Switzerland, and is among the five biggest European projects currently in development.
After having contributed to launching young, Romand Swiss directors such as Jean-Stéphane Bron (Mais im Bundeshuus - Le génie helvétique, which garnered 105,000 admissions in Switzerland) and Lionel Baier (Stupid Boy - Garçon stupide [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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