Cheap populism

Technically, the film is quite good - it is a mixture of pseudo-documentation and kitsch that is probably a good recipe for success.

Not only formally, the film is a technically good low-brow mainstream product geared to the masses, also the content is twisted in a populist way: in the extremely simple world view that is presented, it is clear who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, and the banks are, of course an easy target. In many cases, it is probably right to say that Swiss banks are responsible for much evil in the world, but in this case, the widespread legend about a conspiracy of the banks (mainly UBS) that is uncritically presented in the film is just absurd. Financially, Swissair was already in a very bad state when Corti took over, there were warnings from UBS, and they demanded that Corti take action (e.g. selling GateGourmet) so that Swissair would have some cash available. However, Corti failed to take any decisive actions (he had his multi-million salary for several years guaranteed in advance) and pretended that there was no severe problem.

It is just ridiculous that the failure of the SwissAir management is presented as a conspiracy of banks. Swiss banks are certainly responsible for many bad things, but they are not caritative institutions that have to provide with money companies whose failed management has not taken any decisive steps for improving the financial situation despite repeated warnings.

That the manager Corti, whose failure to act made the end of SwissAir inevitable and who is presented as a hero fighting against the evil banks in the film, is the cousin of the film direction's wife makes the cheap populist content of the film even more embarassing.

Who wants to see a piece of cheap populism and propaganda techniques should watch this film.