The Swissmakers 1978 MISC MULTISUB 1080p BluRay x264

Year: 1978
Country: Switzerland
Director: Rolf Lyssy
Cast: Emil Steinberger, Walo Lüönd, Beatrice Kessler, Wolfgang Stendar
IMDB: Link

Language : German, Swiss German, Italian, English
Subtitles : English, French, German, Italian









In 1972, Théatro Téchnis in Athens produced Lula Anagnostaki’s play Antonio or the Message. I will argue that this production was an act of resistance to the cultural and physical submission of the country to an illegitimate (and illiterate) military regime, as well as an attempt to raise political awareness among the bourgeoisie.

Antonio is set ‘in a room without walls where people from various countries live together. The room has view over streets, squares, and gardens where soldiers and policemen meet in an attempt to impose a new order’ . The house is shelter for refugees from places where the ‘new order’ has been imposed; it resembles a prison, or an asylum. The regime constitutes an invisible and ambiguous threat of violence that eventually becomes visible and physically affects everyone inside and outside the house.

Threat generates action, which comes in the form of words spoken by men and women that enter the house. The message of fear and violence is announced through their language in increasing waves, to conclude in a spectacle of brutal physical violence by the regime. Anagnostaki pointed out that in this play the characters are given freedom; they are fragmentary, and their actions are often incomplete or completed by another character. Moreover, events progress ‘freely and are introduced by the characters; accordingly they lead everybody, finally shaping the play, with their own meaning and autonomy’. Therefore, the characters are not complete individuals, but fragments of a collective unconscious, and it is up to the events to construct the plot. Anagnostaki created an abstract sign-system that is characterised by lack of logical consistency and psychological causality.

The residents of the house live in constant fear: they fear what is to come; a certain establishment, an order from which they hide. It is a totalitarian order that spreads like a plague; so does the fear. The terror of totalitarianism and violence (reality) generates fear, and creates tendencies of escape. The house offers an illusion of privacy, which means detachment from reality, and therefore safety. The shelter they seek is the very illusion of the house being a shelter: they escape reality in order to feel safe. Reality is fear. The illusion is severely damaged when it is clearly exposed: physical violence invades the house in parallel with a counter-message of reaction that has been spread by a group of young men and women, Antonio’s trusted friends.

Meaning within the play is produced by its irrationality and its resistance to traditional structures of realist drama. The characters are stripped off their individuality and act accordingly. In this chaotic universe only the structural variations of the theme of threat do not fall apart. The structure of the play derives from the notion of threat of violence. The rest of the structural elements (the dynamic relations between events and characters) are built upon this ground, following an internal causality of succession of events, and not a logical/psychological causality of behaviours. Moreover, threat spreads and gradually dominates the space in the form of a disease
surrounding the house.

The atmosphere of the play consists of a poetic darkness and constant menacing signs, creating a claustrophobic environment. The domestic space can be described as a closed circuit, from which there is no point of escape. The circle asserts a certain degree of continuity, in that it does not have a starting or an ending point. Threat enters the circle of the house from the periphery of a wider homocentric circle. It surrounds the space of the house, thus creating a circular notion of siege, that gradually closes down to the centre. The outer circle is defined as the State. It is a continuum of oppression and violence, which is represented by waves of threat that occupy the whole of the outer circle, and gradually invade the inner circle.

The two circles are presented as the Family and the State. However, the specific case of family is consisting of various elements, often with opposing needs and wills; they are strangers to each other. Thus, it is not a typical example of a bourgeois family. Fear (of the outside) gradually leads to conformism, as a medium of anonymity and safety, which again leads gradually to loss of identity, mass stereotypes, separation from the experience and the self, alienation. The slow but steady invasion of fear creates events within the microcosm of the house. The reactions to the outside are only passive; they follow the events without participating. It is only a matter of time for the menacing vibrations to invade the private in material form: physical violence.

The only active resistance to the threat comes from Antonio’s friends. Their actions radicalise the inside/private by making it part of the outside/public struggles. They invade the inner circle before the agents of the State. They dissolve the private, in order to confront the terror of the public. The private space of the house is defined by conformism to the local habits, and the bourgeois ideology of passive observation of spectacular life. For its residents, the house is a place of anonymity, a safe place in which they can continue an unsuspected life. The safety of the private is the last thing dissolved by the State. The physical invasion of privacy by the public/State is the ultimate mechanism of suppression and oppression employed by the established order. Slater points out that, according to Marxist theory, ‘private life appears free yet has in fact been colonized by public commercial and political institutions’. Therefore, the safety of the private appears as a vital myth/illusion of the bourgeoisie. (Philip Hager)

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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:41:36 +0200
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