Lüthi und Blanc | |
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Created by | Katja Früh |
Theme music composer | Martin Schenkel featuring Tamy |
Opening theme | Wenn immer |
Country of origin | Switzerland |
Original language(s) | Swiss German |
No. of seasons | 10 |
No. of episodes | 288 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF |
Picture format | 480i (4:3 SDTV) |
Original release | 1999 | – 2007
Lüthi und Blanc is a Swiss German language television drama serial (soap opera) of the 1990s and 2000s. It was filmed and produced at locations in Switzerland by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF.
The various plot lines are about the fate of families around the stubborn chocolate factory-owner Jean-Jacques Blanc (Hans Heinz Moser), his wife Johanna (Linda Geiser), whose daughter Catherine (Isabelle von Siebenthal) and her son, and Catherine's husband Martin Lüthi (Hans Schenker). Opponent of the Lüthi and Blanc-clans and "villain" of the series is the opaque, scheming bankers and illegitimate son of J.J. Blanc, Michael Frick (Gilles Tschudi). The serial focusses on locations in Zürich and Sainte-Croix, the location of the fictional chocolate factory J. J. Blanc.
Lüthi und Blanc was shot at locations in the Canton of Vaud and in Zürich, and produced in Glattfelden.
As well as Fascht e Familie, Lüthi & Blanc is still very popular in the Swiss German culture, and from time to time re-broadcast in the Swiss German television. Lüthi and Blanc was by the Swiss media often called Schoggi Soap (chocolate soap).