His last big journey took him from Stein am Rhein to faraway Japan. Theo Plakoudakis and Marco Salituro had developed the script especially for Mathias Gnädinger. And so the popular actor filled the role of "Big Summer" with a lot of heart: The former wrestling king Anton Sommer is forced by the ten-year-old boy Hiro to accompany him to Japan. Hiro wants to become a sumo wrestler like his father. Zurich-based Stefan Jäger has staged a modern fairy tale that becomes an endearing homage to Mathias Gnädinger. He died on Good Friday 2015.
Mathias Gnädinger
as Anton Sommer
Loïc Sho Güntensperger
as Hiro Akiba
倍賞美津子
as Masako
菅登未男
as Bunta
Hanspeter Müller
as Müri
Sonja Riesen
as Zgrarren
Monica Gubser
as Frau Beck
Gilles Schyvens
as Anton Sommer (1964)
Jonathan Loosli
as Kurt Mäder
Reto Stalder
as Hofer
Magdalena Neuhaus
as Floristin
