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Ernstfall in Havanna (2002)
But would foreigners get it?
I saw this movie with a friend in a dinky theater in my home town, and laughed heartily more than once. Most jokes play on certain Swiss stereotypes and weaknesses that the local audience obviously understood very well, but I wonder how a foreign audience might react. Would they understand the constant gags about Swiss German? How on earth could they catch the subtle characterizations via local dialects? Would the "artful" centerpiece of the Swiss reception strike them as a funny parody of the art our country supports or as simply dumb? The plot itself - the desperate attempt of a Cuban to gain freedom and the ensuing chaos as the inept Swiss try to fix what they let other bungle - will still entertain, but might easily have lost much of its lovable charm.