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A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.
Acting
Elena Panova's wide-eyed chaos agent energy.
Direction
Schmid's operatic mockery of Swiss self-image.
Costume
Irina's escalating costumes as performance art.

Director
Daniel Schmid
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