The last pig
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| Original title | The last pig |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 86 minutes |
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| Director | Aron Lehmann |
| script | Aron Lehmann, Carlos V. Irmscher |
| production | Miriam Klein |
| music | Boris Bojadzhiev |
| camera | Cristian Pirjol |
| cut | David Hartmann |
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The Last Pig is a tragic comedy by the German director Aron Lehmann from 2016 . In the anarchic road movie , a small Swabian pig farmer defends himself against the agricultural industry. He grabs a pig and a rifle, travels through the country as an outlaw to free animals, and writes on the walls “It can't go on like this”. Without knowing it, he sparked a revolutionary movement.
The film was released in German cinemas on September 29, 2016 and was released on DVD on June 9, 2017.
action
The small farm of the young Swabian pig farmer Huber can no longer compete against the large farms that have mutated into agricultural factories and threatens to go bankrupt. His home butcher Willi has a similar situation with the large slaughterhouses. Birgit, the girl he loves and the daughter of the local large farmer, goes to Brandenburg to manage her father's branch there.
When the butcher Willi kills himself after a failed bank robbery and the Huberhof is hit by a meteorite, he has nothing more to lose and he sets off on a journey without a destination. He dons the traditional peasant costume of the Nördlinger Ries , hangs his rifle on, puts the last surviving sow in the sidecar of his old moped and drives north from Speckbrodi .
He says to himself that something cannot be right in a world in which one can no longer provide for oneself with honest work and decides: "It can't go on like this!"
So on his way he releases animals from mass farming everywhere and actively supports other “little ones” in the fight against the “big ones”. During one of his nightly actions in a huge pig fattening operation, he found himself in the middle of a group of masked resistance members, the “Brandenburg Anarchist Animal Liberation Front”, who fervently shouted: “It can't go on like this!”. That's when he realizes that he has become a role model for many. Together they release all pigs and destroy the animal medicines. Suddenly Birgit is standing in the stable door, armed with a pitchfork, and he realizes that they have attacked their farm. The violence escalates when he tries to protect her from the group. One shot hits him and he passes out. The company burns down to the ground.
The next morning he wakes up and sees Birgit starting to clear away the rubble. They meet in the ruins and begin to dance to the song Come, sleep with me .
music
A few songs from the album Keine Macht für Nobody from the political rock band Ton Steine Schorben are interspersed with the plot and reinforce the rebellious atmosphere.
The following titles are played in the film:
- Come sleep with me
- Hold on to your love
- The dream is over
- The tower collapses
The music for the film was written by Boris Bojadzhiev in collaboration with RPS Lanrue , one of the founders of Ton Steine Scherben.
production
The film was shot from June to July and in October 2015 in Nördlinger Ries , Frankfurt am Main and Brandenburg .
A little took over the production . Film production in coproduction with ZDF, funding came from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , FFF Bayern , DFFF and the Filmförderungsanstalt .
The film was shown at the 34th Munich International Film Festival in the New German Cinema section and was released in German cinemas on September 29, 2016 by Neue Visionen .
reception
Reviews
Manfred Riepe is impressed on epd Film by how “cinematic and sensual” director Lehmann thinks. In the “humorous-poetic grotesque” he creates a wide variety of moods “through stylish juggling” with various genre elements and with the help of Swabian dialect and a documentary view of the practice of modern pig fattening, a “grim down-to-earth attitude”. With the last sow he had a great success.
In the short review of the Catholic film service it is said that "the provincial satire with the means of fairytale comedy, rough humor and a lot of absurdly into the void running situation comedy" is an "entertaining farce between Heimatfilm and road movie".
Rüdiger Suchsland saw in the protagonist "a kind of modern agricultural job" in a juicy comedy, "which mixes fairytale elements with anarchist humor". The film meets - "happily exaggerated" - "real existing conditions". The viewer is "not politically correct" consoled with "little reforms" and neither a happy ending nor "nice [] capitalists" are invented. Instead, "sabotage, anarcho-actions, or feces in the garden of the rich exploiters" were fun and annoyed the attacked. Suchsland sums up that in comparison to Lehmann's film Kohlhaas or the proportionality of the means , the film is "crude and sometimes a little vain, but at the same time a blessing in its freedom to break taboos, in resistance, absurdity and comic situations."
Tilmann P. Gangloff can understand that ZDF does not show the film in prime time , as "unpleasant" pictures of real farm animal husbandry are also shown, but says that the film could have been broadcast earlier as a "real romance".
Rainer Gansera says in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that director Lehmann is putting the protagonist "with various fellow fates in a gallery of crazy and infantile comedians." His conclusion is: "Being rebellious as confused whispering and gaga comedy."
Hanns-Georg Rodek focuses his attention in the world on the tragedy of emotional aspects and speculates that "coarseness is probably the only remaining form of protest in a society that is now so good at ignoring protests." Farmer Huber is "the pure fool , has no plan, knows no alternative ”and only feels that things cannot go on like this“ with people, animals and plants being forced into the profit-maximizing machinery ”. It is “the deep reluctance to be degraded to the henchman of invisible-intangible-global powers”, which leaves him with nothing but “helpless turn around” and denies him his pride in his daily work.
Awards
- 2016: Munich Film Festival, nominated in the New German Cinema category
- 2016: Filmz Mainz, nominated in the feature film category
Theater version
The premiere of the stage version by director Julia Prechsl was on April 13, 2019 at the Regensburg Theater .
Web links
- Official page for the film
- The last pig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The last pig at filmportal.de
- Kaspar Heinrich: Humor is a weapon. Interview with Aron Lehmann. Die Zeit , September 30, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Last Pig . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for The Last Pig . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Neue Visionen Filmverleih | The last pig. New Visions, 2016, accessed May 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Manfred Riepe: Critique of The Last Pig. epd film, September 23, 2016, accessed on July 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Alexandra Wach: Review of The Last Pig. Filmdienst , 2016, accessed July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Rüdiger search Country : Wutbauer looking woman. artechock , 2016, accessed May 28, 2018 .
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: The world is a dark place. Frankfurter Rundschau , July 17, 2018, accessed on July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Rainer Gansera: The last pig. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 29, 2016, accessed on July 25, 2018 .
- ^ Hanns-Georg Rodek: More Power to the Bauer. Die Welt , October 4, 2016, accessed July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b The last pig at crew united
- ↑ Christian Muggenthaler: Until the world finally turns the right way round. Nachtkritik.de , April 13, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2020 .