The Swissmakers

Die Schweizermacher
Directed byRolf Lyssy
Written byRolf Lyssy
Christa Maerker
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)
LanguageSwiss German

The Swissmakers (German: Die Schweizermacher) is a 1978 Swiss comedy film directed by Rolf Lyssy. The movie satirizes the numerous bureaucratic and cultural barriers facing foreigners who decide to obtain Swiss nationality.

Die Schweizermacher was the highest-grossing Swiss film of all-time and remains one of the most successful Swiss movies, reaching 940,145 admissions in a country of 6.5 million inhabitants.