The Wiesenberger - No Business like Show Business
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| Original title | The Wiesenberger - No Business like Show Business |
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| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German , Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director |
Bernard Weber , Martin Schilt |
| script | Bernard Weber, Martin Schilt |
| production | Robert Muller |
| music |
Pantha du Prince , Roland Widmer |
| camera | Bernard Weber, Martin Schilt, Stéphane Kuthy , Peter Indergand |
| cut |
Stefan Kälin , Michael Schaerer , Dave D. Leins |
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The Wiesenberger - No Business like Show Business is a documentary by Bernard Weber and Martin Schilt. The filmmakers accompanied the 20 mountain people from the Wiesenberg yodelling club through the ups and downs of their careers for two years. The film won the audience award on the occasion of its premiere at the Solothurn Film Festival in 2012.
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The Wiesenbergers practiced the same rituals for 20 years. The singing mountain people met once a week in the chapel to rehearse together, and they played for weddings and birthdays. Your world is now upside down. Their CDs storm the charts and they are overwhelmed with requests for concerts - show business beckons. Now they should also perform in Shanghai. The tempting offer becomes an acid test. A film about young mountain people who practice their cohesion in a surprisingly conflict-friendly and grassroots manner. A little lesson in democracy.
reception
- Stefan Staub in the cinéma yearbook described the film as an “extremely entertaining lesson in basic Swiss democracy”. And this is precisely the great strength of the film: "That it does not try to play off customs and show business against each other, but rather tells the dynamics behind these superficial opposites in images that speak for themselves."
- The SRF show Kulturplatz of Swiss television found the access to the rustic world of yodelers adequate. “It is the great strength of the film that it does away with a lot of clichés almost on the side. In doing so, he does not pay homage to a supposedly ideal world, but rather focuses on a fascinatingly strong social community. "
- The TagesWoche Basel stated: “The film is a little basic Swiss lesson: if you can't listen, you shouldn't sing along. If you want to sing along, you should find your own voice. Anyone who wants a voice is dependent on the differences to other voices. That doesn't just need good hearing. It also needs good tone. "
- Antoine Duplan at Le Temps writes: “We're not in the nice little homeland film. The authors of the film, both of whom live in Zurich, as city dwellers, look at Central Switzerland with a pinch of irony. "
- Michael Sennhauser in Sennhauser's film blog: "[...] beyond the story, the film becomes an unobtrusive reflection of the media mirror world and has not only become greater than the sum of its parts, but also more ambiguous [...] a metaphor for the 'special case of Switzerland' who keeps success alive with compromises. "
Awards
- 2012: Nomination Earth Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival
- 2012: Audience Award Solothurn Film Festival
- 2012: Audience Award at the Eberswalde Film Festival
Web links
- Die Wiesenberger - Official website for the film
- The Wiesenberger - No business like show business in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Die Wiesenberger - No Business like Show Business at swissfilms.ch