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ACTOR
Hanspeter MüllerGilles TschudiLászló I. KishRainer Guldener
DIRECTOR
Michael Steiner
SYNOPSICS
Grounding - Die letzten Tage der Swissair (2006) is a Swiss German,German,Italian,English movie. Michael Steiner has directed this movie. Hanspeter Müller,Gilles Tschudi,László I. Kish,Rainer Guldener are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2006. Grounding - Die letzten Tage der Swissair (2006) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
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Go see it!
Amazing mixture of real documentation, geniously played characters and fictional story lines. A national disaster with a lot of questions behind it, is now a lot clearer. Who's fault was it, that on this octoberday in 2001 the planes of the proud Swissair were grounded? The movie does not tell this in a final way, but leads you to an opinion, which could be new to the audience. Very well played by swiss actors Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart (as Mario Corti) and Gilles Tschudi (as Marcel Ospel). A really intense experience, especially if you witnessed the happenings on October 2nd, 2001. One of the revolutionary "new" Swiss Movies. And there are more to come. Watch out for Director Michael Steiner, who's "Mein Name ist Eugen" has become last years most successful swiss movie. Go and watch it! You're gonna see things, you never expect....
Excellent movie with valuable corporate lesson
As stated in the Financial Times, this fast paced movie is an excellent lesson for companies. A MUST SEE for all Swiss and Germans and all former frequent flyers of Swissair. Great casting (for those who know the real-life protagonists), convincing acting and script (although schmaltzy at times) and thrilling from start to end with a mix of news coverage documentation and movie. The simplification of the characters is permissible as are some of the lapses, like showing car models that didn't exist at the time. I hope the movie gets some international attention and will be synchronized in English (swissgerman in the original) or at least get subtitles.
Dramatic Countdown
GROUNDING shows the story from the great air flag of our country which became a nightmare and that didn't never have the chance to get the emergency exit. I didn't see GROUNDING in the theaters because there were long rows so I forgot this movie until I heard from an ex Swissair stewardess that she watched it and she found it very dramatic with full of emotions. In fact it touched me very deeply too and I recommend it to everyone that like air planes movies. The picture was well done and I never got bored from start to the end. All the actors did a great job here and the director succeeded to tell all in a very dramatic countdown. What I didn't like therefore was that the story has been set up with a good and a bad guy that doesn't match at all the real events that happened before the definitive catastrophe. I was impressed when I saw the SWISSAIR headquarter of Balsberg near the airport of Zurich where I spent a banking workshop last year. I realize now how hot the situation really was there and all the economical fights the management had to affront in this building. I was pleased to watch the Gate Gourmet employee called Luigi Dini in the film that was my partner in this workshop. All in all I give a 7/10.
An awful, manipulative pseudo documentary
The film makers managed to reduce the fascinating example of arrogant mismanagement to a manipulative, confusing wannabe tearjerker. There is an abundance of irrelevant, sappy characters. My favorite being the heroic stewardess, who saves the life of a passenger who has a heart attack - and all she keeps worrying about is that she may be neglecting her poor pubescent son. The facts are totally distorted. The incompetent manager "Super Mario" is depicted as the altruistic hero, who only wants the best for all his poor employees. And the bankers, of course, are just greedy cold-hearted monsters. All in all, extremely annoying.
Boring unless you are immediately affected
"Grounding" is a Swiss film from almost 10 years ago and it deals with the collapse of Switzerland's biggest airline. I guess that is what happens when rich men in suits get more and more greedy to the extent that they put the entire enterprise in danger because all they want is profit, profit, profit. And who will be the ones that suffer from it? Everybody apart from the rich guys basically. On the one hand, it would be the people who want to fly to their destinations and who get in all kinds of trouble because their flights get canceled. On the other hand, it would be the employees of the company, namely the stewards and stewardesses who will be the first ones to lose their jobs. The movie tried to turn it into a mix of drama and documentary and one of the drama aspects (one that is not too based on facts) is the fate of a stewardess of the airplane and how the company's demise affects her family life. Director Michael Steiner is responsible for some of Switzerland's most famous films from the last 10 years including "Sennentuntschi". However, I have to say that I did not find a single one of his works particularly memorable. admittedly, I did not see his entire body of work. "Grounding" is not a really bad film by any means, but something was missing to make it truly worth watching. Also, I found it way too long. 90 minutes would really have been fine and there were a lot totally forgettable scenes that could have been cut. Instead, this film easily crosses the 2-hour-mark. Not recommended.