Das Erbe der Bergler – Alpine Saga
Alpine Saga – A Film About Mountain Haymaking
Alpine Saga – Un film sur les faucheurs des montagnes
Switzerland, August 2006
FILM,
Documentary,
97 min.
- directed by
- Erich Langjahr
- Written by
- Erich Langjahr
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.langjahr-film.ch
A unique opportunity to experience the last remaining mountain haymakers 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.
credits
- World Premiere
- August 2006
- Original Version
- Swiss-German, German (english/german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 97 min.
- Production
- Langjahr Film GmbH
- Producer
- directed by
- Erich Langjahr
- Written by
- Erich Langjahr
- Cinematography
- Erich Langjahr
- Editing
- Erich Langjahr
- Re-Recording Mix
- Dieter Lengacher
- Music
- Hans Kennel
- Location Sound Mix
- Silvia Haselbeck
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Langjahr Film GmbH
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Langjahr Film GmbH Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Solothurn, Bundesamt für Kultur, Swiss Film Award, Best Documentary Film 2007 (Nomination)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Buenos Aires, 15° Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
10.04.2013 - 21.04.2013 -
22. Bozner Filmtage
16.04.2008 - 20.04.2008 -
Der Neue Heimatfilm
22.08.2007 - 26.08.2007 -
Wroclaw, T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival
19.07.2007 - 29.07.2007 -
55th International Film Festival Montagna, Esplorazione, Avventura
28.04.2007 - 06.05.2007 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2007 - 28.01.2007 -
Saarbrücken, 28. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
15.01.2007 - 21.01.2007 -
Leipzig, 49. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
30.10.2006 - 05.11.2006 -
Vienna, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival
13.10.2006 - 25.10.2006 -
Locarno, 59. Festival internazionale del film Locarno
02.08.2006 - 12.08.2006