Cine Europa 12, Day 8  Mein Name Ist Eugen (Rascals On The Road) Switzerland Mein Name Ist Eugen is German (the predominant language in Switzerland) for My Name Is Eugene, but the official English title of this entertaining Swiss film is Rascals On The Road. The producers were not incorrect in choosing that for the movie’s international English title. The movie is, indeed, about rascals on the road, four boys who ran away from their hometown of Berne to look for their idol, the famed King of Rascals, in the city of Zurich. These troublesome boys were the loyal Franz, the empty-headed Eduard, the spoiled Bäschteli, and the clever Eugen, who was the occasional narrator of the movie. He began his story with the eponymous sentence, “Mein name ist Eugen.” Based on a popular Swiss children’s book, the movie was as mischievous as its young heroes from start to finish. It employed a number of playful techniques in a lot of scenes, including those that resembled lost camera footages and animated DIY books, and its score was by turns frisky and menacing, with hints of Danny Elfman and John Williams’ sweepingness. More noticeably, it had copious amounts of laughs. Thanks to some funny slapstick scenes and witty dialogues rarely encountered in family adventure films, the audience, including me, was laughing so incessantly that one would get the idea that the theater was pre-filled with laughing gas. But in case you’re wondering about the story, I’m glad to report that it was not sacrificed in favor of fancy filmmaking and comic entertainment. The movie ably managed to keep its delightful story and important message about friendship and adventure intact in spite of its feverish pace and laugh-a-minute behavior. Mein Name Ist Eugen was, sadly, the last movie in my Cine Europa 12 itinerary. Indeed, it was a great finale to a largely satisfying cinematic expedition. It was also a fitting end, as moments after watching those adventurous rascals on the road, I myself, a self-confessed scoundrel, would be hitting the highways, footpaths, and spiral tunnels that would ultimately lead me to a place called home.

Cine Europa 12, Day 8 

Mein Name Ist Eugen (Rascals On The Road)
Switzerland

Mein Name Ist Eugen is German (the predominant language in Switzerland) for My Name Is Eugene, but the official English title of this entertaining Swiss film is Rascals On The Road. The producers were not incorrect in choosing that for the movie’s international English title. The movie is, indeed, about rascals on the road, four boys who ran away from their hometown of Berne to look for their idol, the famed King of Rascals, in the city of Zurich. These troublesome boys were the loyal Franz, the empty-headed Eduard, the spoiled Bäschteli, and the clever Eugen, who was the occasional narrator of the movie. He began his story with the eponymous sentence, “Mein name ist Eugen.”

Based on a popular Swiss children’s book, the movie was as mischievous as its young heroes from start to finish. It employed a number of playful techniques in a lot of scenes, including those that resembled lost camera footages and animated DIY books, and its score was by turns frisky and menacing, with hints of Danny Elfman and John Williams’ sweepingness. More noticeably, it had copious amounts of laughs. Thanks to some funny slapstick scenes and witty dialogues rarely encountered in family adventure films, the audience, including me, was laughing so incessantly that one would get the idea that the theater was pre-filled with laughing gas. But in case you’re wondering about the story, I’m glad to report that it was not sacrificed in favor of fancy filmmaking and comic entertainment. The movie ably managed to keep its delightful story and important message about friendship and adventure intact in spite of its feverish pace and laugh-a-minute behavior.

Mein Name Ist Eugen was, sadly, the last movie in my Cine Europa 12 itinerary. Indeed, it was a great finale to a largely satisfying cinematic expedition. It was also a fitting end, as moments after watching those adventurous rascals on the road, I myself, a self-confessed scoundrel, would be hitting the highways, footpaths, and spiral tunnels that would ultimately lead me to a place called home.

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