13/05/2005

The Swiss film admission results are quite disappointing. Apart from minority co-productions, the Swiss Film market share indeed drooped from 5,9 % in 2003 to 2,6 % in 2004. Comedy Achtung, fertig, Charlie!'s great success explains the 2003 exceptional figures, cinema-going results were better in 2002 (3,37 %) and in 2001 (2,7 %). Totalling 485'405 admissions in 2004, the national production achieved great success: Christoph Schaub’s telefilm which was distributed in the Sternenberg screens (122'396), the comedies The Ring Thing by Marc Schippert (44'992) and Achtung, fertig, Charlie! by Mike Eschmann (30'840 as against 529'496 in 2003), the detective film Strähl (28'538), the documentaries Ässhäk by Ulrike Koch (25'762) and Mais im Bundeshuus - Le génie helvétique by Jean-Stéphane Bron (20'214 as against 84'653 in 2003) or still the fiction Ferienfieber by This Lüscher (21'037). Moreover, 21'03717,7 million admissions were registered in Switzerland in 2004 compared to 16,9 million in 2003, which represents a 4,38 % cinema-going increase and a 5,45 % turnover rise. Switzerland owns 335 screens (110'445 seats), from which seven cinema complexes (67 screens) which had alone more than a quarter of all audience. The American cinema market share increased by 69,15 % (compared to 63,8 % in 2003), whereas that of European films (22,5 % as against 24,9 % in 2003) and other countries (6,2 % compared to 8,92 % in 2003) registered a slight drop. Only four European films appear on the Top 30 of the best results by film.

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