Zurich, 1989, and a good-natured but none-too-bright detective is ordered to go undercover at a radical lefty theatre
Here’s an undemanding lighthearted
comedy from Switzerland loosely inspired by a real-life spying scandal in the late 1980s, when it emerged that Swiss
police had amassed secret files on 900,000 people suspected of dodgy political views. (Handing out leftwing leaflets was enough to make you a target for surveillance.) It’s a movie made for a home audience, I suspect; if you’re unfamiliar with the history, some of the events here feel convoluted and hard to follow. Though anyone old enough to remember the late 80s will recognise the high-street golfing jumpers and creased nylon slacks in a nothingy shade of “C&A greige”.