Welcome to Switzerland

Jun 30, 2004

1h 45m

★ 5.0

Overview

Thierry, an ethnologist specializing in the Sami people, travels to his native Switzerland with his partner, Sophie, to attend his grandmother's funeral. There he reunites with his family and discovers that he has inherited two million Swiss francs, but that in order to obtain it, he will have to pretend to adapt to the Swiss values and lifestyle that he had rejected. To do so, he agrees to undergo a sort of crash course provided by his Swiss cousin Aloïs, who seems to have his eye on Sophie.

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Aloïs Couchepin

Vincent Perez

Sophie

Emmanuelle Devos

Thierry

Denis Podalydès

Béatrice

Marianne Basler

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Welcome to Switzerland

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