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BOX OFFICE Switzerland

Lacklustre results for Swiss films in 2009

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The Swiss Association of film exhibitors and distributors ProCinema has recently published the film exhibition results for 2009. It emerges that with a 3.51% market share (+0.4%) and 551,003 admissions (+93,000), Switzerland has gone from fourth to fifth place in the ranking of countries with the best-performing films, after the United States (66.75%), Great Britain (9.83%), France (7.89%), and Germany (5.83%).

It is of course in German-speaking Switzerland that domestic films achieve the best score with 337,664 admissions (67.43%), but French-speaking Switzerland stands up to comparison with 157,872 admissions (29.29%). The results for Italian-speaking Switzerland – 19,496 admissions (3,28 %) – are, however, disappointing.

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While Swiss films struggle to reclaim the 9.62% market share of 2006, at least they haven’t plunged back below the 3% mark. This threshold was finally crossed in 2002, after the market share had stagnated at an average of 1.95% since 1995.

In the 2009 box office rankings for Swiss films, the five top titles are Christoph Schaub’s Julia’s Disappearance [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Christoph Schaub
film profile
]
, which amassed a total of 166,926 admissions by mid-March; Micha Lewinsky’s Will You Marry Us? [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
(77,955 admissions); Ursula Meier’s Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Thierry Spicher
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile
]
(89,553); Denis Rabaglia’s Marcello Marcello [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
(49,366); and Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter’s Cargo [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
(21,568). The 2009 Top 10 also includes three documentaries.

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(Translated from French)

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