The seventh farmers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The seventh farmers |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| script | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| production |
Danny Krausz ( Dor Film ) Kurt Stocker |
| music | Erik Satie |
| camera | Peter von Haller |
| cut | Britta Nahler |
| occupation | |
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Die Siebtelbauern is an Austrian film from 1998. The screenplay is from Stefan Ruzowitzky , who realized it as a director near Bad Zell in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria . In addition to other actors, Simon Schwarz , Sophie Rois and Lars Rudolph played the leading roles in this film, which deals with a rural sociotope in Upper Austria in the early 1920s. The director himself describes Die Siebtelbauern as a home film . The film is sold by the film shop . The English film title is "The Inheritors - an Alpine Western".
action
A tyrannical peasant is hated by his servants and maidservants. The service staff is under the supervision of a vicious foreman. Other striking figures are the servant Lukas, a simple-minded and cheerful drip who is popular with all women, and the impulsive, rebellious maid Emmy. The narrator of the film, Severin, who has not lived on the farm for long, is, however, more introverted and comparatively intelligent.
One day old Rosalind, who is returning to the farm after years, murders the farmer because he had raped her years ago. Luke is the child who came out of this rape. Rosalind, who has a heart condition, is arrested.
The other farmers in the village are eagerly waiting to see who will receive the legacy of the officially childless farmer. In his will, the farmer insults the residents of the village and his servants. Nevertheless, he bequeaths the entire farm to his ten maidservants. The villagers are stunned. In their eyes, the deceased's will undermines the social hierarchy of the village. The heirs split up their new property. Everyone receives a tenth.
The foreman wants to sell the farm in the name of all heirs to the large farmer Danninger at a lower price, and tries to impose his will on the remaining residents of the farm, just as the murdered householder had done. The majority of the maidservants, however, are in favor of assuming the inheritance and they drive him and another servant and a maid from the farm. The seven remaining are disparagingly referred to as "seventh farmers" by the angry farmers of the village.
The "Siebtelbauern" continue their usual work in order to remain independent farmers. In doing so, they increasingly have to defend themselves against the peasants in the village and the foremen who team up with them. They secretly receive support from the servants and maids of the other farms in the village. The farmers of the village try to acquire the land of the "seventh farmers" under the leadership of Danninger. When they fail, they set fire to the courtyard. In the course of the fire, Lukas kills the former foreman in self-defense. As a result, Lukas hides in a cave in the forest with the support of the other "seventh farmers", but is ultimately lured out and murdered.
During Lukas' funeral, Severin and Emmy leave the village together and pass the village residents who look after them. They want to emigrate to America, just as Luke had planned.
Reviews
The film received the highest rating in the Austrian television magazine TV-Media and was described as the great Austro-Kino . In the March 1999 issue of Kultur SPIEGEL s praised the fact that powerful images and an outstanding team of actors would turn the mountain drama into a universal tragedy.
AZ : "A modern homeland film, without strained dialect, full of clever metaphors. It's about country and people, the rest of their dignity in decline. In America it would be a western."
Awards
The film was shown at numerous film festivals around the world. For example, it was shown at the Argentinian Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata . He won the main prize at the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent , as well as at the Rotterdam International Film Festival . At the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain the film received a Silver Ear and the FIPRESCI Prize .
In 2001 the Siebtelbauern received the Erich Neuberg Prize , a television prize from the ORF . When the Max Ophüls Prize was awarded in 1998, the film won the film prize of the Saarland Prime Minister and an actor prize for Simon Schwarz , who played Lukas .
The film was Austria's candidate for a nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the 1999 Academy Awards , but was not nominated.
Play
- On July 1, 2001, the stage play "Die Siebtelbauern" by Stefan Hellbert , based on the film , was premiered in Rattenberg in Tyrol .
- On July 9, 2008, the Ballenberg Landscape Theater in Switzerland premiered another piece after the film, this time by Paul Steinmann . The play was taken over by the Free Theater Therwil in 2009 .
Web links
- The Siebtelbauern at Dor-Film
- The Siebtelbauern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Siebtelbauern at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Film on the website of the cameraman Peter von Haller , accessed on August 2, 2014.
- ↑ JPC.de
- ↑ mein district.at: Schlossbergspiele Rattenberg "Die Siebtelbauern" , accessed on August 2, 2014
- ^ Theaterverband Tirol: Die Siebtelbauern. Volksstück by Stefan Hellbert , with a video, accessed on August 2, 2014
- ↑ Landschaftstheater Ballenberg: Review , accessed on August 2, 2014
- ^ Free Theater Therwil: Photos from "Die Siebtelbauern" , accessed on August 2, 2014
- ↑ Radio Baselland: The Theater in Therwil stages "Die Siebtelbauern ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note . , accessed on August 2, 2014
