«Snow White»

About the film: Party queen Nico is a luxury girl from a rich family on Zurich's Gold Coast. Nico usually roams Zurich's posh nightlife with her friend Wanda, partying till she drops. Until one night in her regular disco she meets Paco, a cool rapper from the working class who is serious about his socially critical lyrics. The two become lovers. Nico radically changes her lifestyle. But then Paco goes on tour with his band and Nico starts to like her old life again - with dramatic consequences...

A film by Samir, 2005

Snow White topped the Swiss box office charts for two weeks. After Mein Name ist Eugen, Snow White became the second most successful Swiss feature film in 2005.

«Glamour and commitment meet in this stirring drama about a rich poor girl - with a great sense of imagery and some borrowings from Larry Clark and Mike Figgis, Samir brings his middle-class milieus to implosion. Zurich can also be very cold.»

- Frankfurter Allgemeine