Leo Sonnyboy

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Leo Sonnyboy
File:Leo Sonnyboy ---- DVD cover.jpg
Swiss DVD cover showing Dieter Meier, Mathias Gnädinger and Christian Kohlund
Directed byRolf Lyssy
Written byRolf Lyssy
Produced byEdi Hubschmid
StarringMathias Gnädinger
Christian Kohlund
Ankie Lau
Stephanie Glaser
CinematographyHans Liechti
Edited byLilo Gerber
Music byRuedi Häusermann
Release date
  • 15 December 1989 (1989-12-15)[1]
Running time
95 min
LanguagesSwiss German, English

Leo Sonnyboy is a 1989 Swiss film directed by Rolf Lyssy. The comedy was filmed in Zürich and at various locations in Switzerland, and produced in Switzerland.

Plot

Leo (Mathias Gnädinger) is about 40-year-old man who lives as a single in Zürich. He works as a train driver and is mothered by his Mama (Stefanie Glaser), but seems to be a bit solitary. His best friend Adrian (Christian Kohlund) has a serious problem with the Fremdenpolizei authorities, the immigration police of Switzerland, as his girlfriend Apia Kolong (Ankie Lau) from Thailand works as an exotic dancer, but Adrian is already married with children. Leo is persuaded by Adrian to marry Apia to allow her to continue living in Switzerland. Leo and Apia fall in love, and Apia wants to change her life. Problems and irritations ensue.

Cast

Reception

The Swiss comedy was one of the most successful films in the Swiss German cinemas between 1975 and 2004, and had an audience of 131,572 people.[2] The comedy is distributed on DVD (RC 2).[3] On 16 March 1991 the comedy started also at the New York New Directors/New Films Festival.

Soundtrack

Dieter Meier of Yello played a demimonde businessmen, and so Yello also distributed the soundtrack.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Leo Sonnyboy (1989)" (in German). outnow.ch. Retrieved 2015-02-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. ↑ "Die Filmproduktion (Kino und Fernsehen) in der Schweiz, 1995 – 2004: Struktur, Ergebnisse und Finanzierung" (PDF) (in German and French). Bundesamt für Statististik BFS. Retrieved 2015-02-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. ↑ "Film Leo Sonnyboy" (in German). cineman.ch. Retrieved 2015-02-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ↑ "Leo-Sonnyboy - Cast, Crew ..." Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-02-27.

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