Switzerland 2006. 35mm, 1:1.66, Dolby SR, colour, 97 min.
A unique opportunity to experience the last remaining «Wildheuer» in the Muotatal, a valley in canton Schwyz, Switzerland.
Award-winning director Langjahr returns to his beloved Alps to document a group of people continuing the legacy of their forefathers. Every year on Swiss National day, August 1, the Wildheuer climb up the steep mountain of the «Hinteren Heubrig», fitted out with scythes and wearing wooden shoes with spikes, just as their ancestors did before them. They are part of a generation who have lived with the challenges of nature and survived it. In his film, Langjahr's poetic realism gives an insight into these people's experience of the simple life, the very foundation of human existence.
Director | Erich Langjahr |
Script | Erich Langjahr |
With | Albert Gwerder, Erich Gwerder, Alois Langenegger, Toni Schelbert, Anton Büeler etc. |
Photography | Erich Langjahr |
Sound | Silvia Haselbeck |
Editing | Erich Langjahr |
Music | Hans Kennel Musiker: Hans Kennel (Alphorn, Büchel, Neverlure, Stimme), Marcel Huonder (Alphorn, Büchel), Philip Powell (Alphorn), Marc Unternährer (Alphorn); Echo vom Schattähalb: Cornel Schelbert (Schwyzerörgeli), Daniel Schmidig (Schwyzerörgeli), Urs Schelbert (Kontrabass) |
Collaborators | Mischung: Dieter Lengacher Plakat: Art Ringger und Marion Lastin |
Duration | 97 min. |
Format | 35mm, 1:1.66, Dolby SR |
Shooting format | 35mm |
Versions | Dialekt: Dialekt m. UT deutsch/englisch |
Sales DVD/Video | DVD [order] |
Release | Locarno 2006 |
Festivals | LOCARNO CH: 59. Festival Internazionale del film Locarno 2.-12.8.06, "Semaine de la critique" LEIPZIG D: 49. Int. Leipziger Dokumentar-Film-Festival 30.10.-5.11.06 WIEN AT: Viennale, Vienna Int. Film Festival 13.-25. 10.06 SOLOTHURN CH: Solothurner Filmtage Januar 07 SAARBRÜCKEN D: 28. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, 15.-21. Januar 2007 TRENTO IT: 55. Trento Filmfestival 28.4. - 6.5.07 im Wettbewerb WROCŁAW PL: Era New Horizons Int. Film Festival, 19.-29 Juli 2007 FREISTADT AT: 20. Festival Der neue Heimatfilm, 22.-26.8.07 PÄRNU EST: XXI Pärnu International Film Festival, 8.-29. Juli 2007 FREISTADT AT: 20. Festival Der neue Heimatfilm, 22.-26.8.07 BANSKO BG: VII Int. Mountain Film Festival 29.November-2.12.2007) WÜRZBURG DE: Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg 24.- 27.1.08 Paris F: Musée d'Orsay, 12. Januar 2008 BOZEN I:Bozner Filmtage, 16.-20. April 2008 AOSTA I: Desarpa Film Festival 25.-27.9.08 RADSTADT AT: 7. Filmfestival 5. - 8. November 08 INNSBRUCK AT, 7. Innsbrucker Naturfilmtage 15.-18. Oktober 08 BAD AIBLING (DE) Nonfiktionale, Festival des dokumentarischen Films,, 24. - 27. September 09 Peking China Documentary Film Festival 1.-7. Mai 10 |
Awards | Nomination für den Schweizer Filmpreis 2007 (bester Dokumentarfilm) |
Screens | Schweiz: über 63'000 Eintritte |
TV broadcasts | TSR; TSI; SF 1; 3sat. |
Production | Langjahr-Film GmbH, Luegstrasse 13, CH-6037 Root Tel. +41-41-450 22 52 – Fax +41-41-450 22 51 E-mail: info@langjahr-film.ch – send this message – www.langjahr-film.ch |
World Rights | Langjahr-Film GmbH |
Distribution Switzerland and international | Langjahr-Film GmbH, Luegstrasse 13, CH-6037 Root Tel. +41-41-450 22 52 – Fax +41-41-450 22 51 E-mail: info@langjahr-film.ch – send this message – www.langjahr-film.ch |
ISAN | 0000-0001-64C1-0000-G-0000-0000-Q |
Suisa number | 1005.818 |