MONROE — “Bonjour Switzerland” will be the film featured at Turner Hall of Monroe’s annual Swiss Movie Night, scheduled for Friday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Grand Hall.  Part of Turner Hall’s Swiss Heritage Series, the film is about 88 minutes long, and is in Swiss-German with English subtitles.  Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; a free-will donation will be accepted.  

Although small, Switzerland is a country of four national languages:  German (Swiss-German), French, Italian, and Romansch, with about 63% of the country speaking Swiss-German. A referendum, set before the public with less than honorable intentions, seeks to designate only one language as the official Swiss language. With the majority of the population speaking Swiss-German, chaos erupts when the referendum results reveal that the new official language will be...French. The plot takes a number of unexpected twists and turns, with plenty of laughable moments which only highlight the absurdness of the whole premise of one language. 

More information, including a link to a trailer is available at https://turnerhallofmonroe.org/shs.html.