“The Foster Boy” – number 1 at the Swiss box office
The Swiss feature film “The Foster Boy” (“Der Verdingbub”) has led the Swiss box office for three weeks. The film has already sold over 120,000 tickets in German-speaking Switzerland since it was launched on November 3, 2011.
25.11.2011
The Swiss feature film “The Foster Boy” (“Der Verdingbub”) has led the Swiss box office for three weeks. The film has already sold over 120,000 tickets in German-speaking Switzerland since it was launched on November 3, 2011. With his historical drama, well-known film and television director Markus Imboden unfurls a dark chapter in Swiss history.
The film was produced by C-Films in Zurich, in collaboration with Bremedia in Bremen, and shot in Emmental. As late as the 1950s, orphans and children of divorced parents were also hired out to farming families in this region of Switzerland. The film tells the fateful story of young Max - with Max Hubacher in the title role - and a girl who is savagely exploited and humiliated by her foster parents, starring Katja Riemann and Stefan Kurt.
Zurich, November 25, 2011