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Ernstfall in Havanna (2002)
Best Swiss comedy in the last few years!
To me this is the best Swiss comedy since "Beresina" - and yet so different. "Beresina" is much more over-the-top, sometimes downright surreal, whereas "Ernstfall in Havanna" is a "straightforward" comedy.
Don't expect anything like "Viktors Spätprogramm" - thank Goodness Giaccobbo has resisted the temptation to just produce one sketch after the other, this would have been unbearable and not the least funny. But "Ernstfall" is, andnobody gets off lightly: The Swiss, the Cubans, the Americans, everybody is made fun of.
My favourite scene is when the crisis meeting with the Swiss foreign minister (a wonderful parody of Joseph Deiss) and his crisis meeting watch what happens in the Swiss Embassy in Cuba on CNN, and suddenly somebody asks, "What does Swiss Television say?"...
Go and see it for yourself!
Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz (1999)
The funniest Swiss movie I remember seeing!
Beresina is definitely funnier than that classic of Swiss comedy, Die Schweizermacher. The exaggerated way in which everything is portrayed is hilarious and never dumb. I don't know if it's equally funny for people who have never been to Switzerland though - you mightn't get some of the jokes. But everybody else: Go and see it, you'll have a laugh.