At home the people die

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Movie
Original title At home the people die
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Klaus Gietinger
Leo Hiemer
script Klaus Gietinger
Leo Hiemer
production Klaus Gietinger
Fritz Günthner
Leo Hiemer
music Klaus Roggors
camera Marian Czura
cut Clara Frykowsky
occupation

Daheim die Leut ' is a German film by the directors Klaus Gietinger and Leo Hiemer from 1985. The film tells with a lot of local color how the West Allgäu farmer Allgeier refuses to be connected to the commune's long-distance water supply.

Die Leut at Home ' was premiered in February 1985 at the Berlinale in the Forum section and was shown in German cinemas on October 10, 1985. The television premiere took place on January 11th, 1988 in the first and was broadcast with German subtitles because of the Western Allgäu dialect of the protagonists.

action

The Allgäu security guard at an ammunition factory and farmer Hans Allgeier has his own water source and therefore refuses to contact the district administrator Dr. Franz Strobel planned and under construction long-distance water pipeline from the mountains to be connected for a fee and to have to pay water interest in the future. After driving three surveyors off his property with a pitchfork, District Administrator Strobel Allgeier's source is filled in by the building contractor Dominikus Fäßler. Allgeier, to whom all the newly born calves die in the barn, then turns to Sebastian Guggemoos, whose advice to his wife has already made him recover from a puzzling illness at the beginning of the film. As a result of Guggemoos' actions, the district administrator was soon attacked by terrible urinary retention . Meanwhile , a love affair develops between Allgeier's son Werner and Silke from Göttingen , who is visiting the neighborhood on holiday . After the first sex with her, he is visited by the incarnate devil. After the celebration of the inauguration of the aqueduct, District Administrator Strobel drives into the ditch during a thunderstorm during a police check. During the same thunderstorm, Silke, who was driven to the train station by Werner, missed her train to return to Göttingen.

background

Die Leut at Home is a production by Westallgäuer Filmproduktion GbR. The film was financially supported by the Board of Trustees of Young German Film and received funding from the Federal Ministry of the Interior through its nomination for the German Film Prize . The characters in the film were predominantly cast by amateur actors. The film was shot between July 22, 1984 and October 10, 1984 in Westallgäu.

The film title is based on a popular justification for visitors to taverns in Allgäu and is presented in the film by grandfather Allgeier in Westallgäu dialect: "Drhoim sterbet d'Leit and at Boschdwirt deannet, do isch scho Achtzg Johr koiner me gschtorba!" ("At home the people die, At the post office over there, nobody has died for eighty years! ")

The Kreuz Gasthaus in Riedhirsch, a district of Heimenkirch, served as the film set for the evening youth meeting . The inn was taken over by the host-actor of the film and continued to run.

Reviews

The film-dienst wrote that the people die at home is “a kaleidoscopic, imaginative home film of malicious charm”, which is characterized by the “critical and at the same time loving representation of federal German provincial reality”.

Der Spiegel described the film as a “piece of regional cinema shot according to all the rules of film art”. He tells "ironically broken [...] of life in the Allgäu region, of holidays in the villages, of trade and health prayer, superstition, obedience to authority and bigotry". He is based on real incidents and people. In contrast to the usually cheerful comedy nobility, it is not the people, but rather "their stories" that are exposed to laughter. Michael Althen attested in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the film was, despite the "bitter satire and sharp-tongued criticism [...] full of sympathy for the Allgäu and its people". Althen particularly emphasized the "careful script", "which helps all characters to get their rights", "without losing sight of the story because of their multitude" and thereby true "the sympathy for their characters".

Kino.de called Daheim die Leut ' a “timeless classic of dialect film” and Cinema summarized its verdict as “bizarre: a very special Heimatfilm”.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program 1985. Berlin International Film Festival , accessed on February 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ The People Die at Home '(1985). Release info. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c At home the people die. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on February 28, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b About the villages. Der Spiegel , April 29, 1985, accessed July 19, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Rudi Holzberger: The fooled district administrator: satire about a satire - film with images from reality. Die Zeit , January 3, 1986, accessed March 1, 2015 .
  6. ^ Willibald Spatz: Allgäu: 66 favorite places and 11 adventure pools. Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-839-21259-2 .
  7. ↑ At home the people die. film service , accessed February 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Michael Althen : The people die at home. In: X Films Creative Pool . Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 10, 1985, accessed on July 19, 2008 .
  9. ↑ At home the people die. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media , accessed February 28, 2015 .
  10. ↑ The People Die at Home '(1985). In: cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on February 28, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Alpinale 1985. Website Temporati.de. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
  12. ^ Goldene Filmspule award winners ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )