Ex Voto
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| Original title | Ex Voto |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 106 minutes |
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| Director | Erich Langjahr |
| script | Erich Langjahr |
| production | Long year film |
| music |
Mani Planzer , Mark Albisser , Hans Kennel , Hans Koch , Edwin Küttel , Urs Leimgruber , Philipp Maag |
| camera | Erich Langjahr |
| cut | Erich Langjahr |
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Ex Voto is a feature documentary by the Swiss director Erich Langjahr . With this film, Langjahr kept his promise to film the landscape of his youth. Ex Voto explores the question of what it means to have a home .
Emergence
The title "Ex Voto" means vow, promise, thanks (see votive offering ). With the film, the director fulfilled his vow to film the landscape of his youth. For seven years he observed the central Swiss landscape around the Gubel . Langjahr made most of the recordings in the Canton of Zug . Other locations are in the neighboring cantons of Schwyz , Lucerne and Zurich .
The first recordings for the film were made in 1979. It was released in 1986.
In 2018, the film was digitally restored with the help of Memoriav (Association for the Preservation of Audiovisual Cultural Assets in Switzerland).
content
The film shows the region around the Gubel with the “Maria Hilf” convent, farmers, the farmer Trudi Hegglin and the destruction caused by gravel mining and urban sprawl .
Awards
- Quality award from the Federal Department of Home Affairs
- Premier Prix du Jury Oecuménique at the Visions du Réel 1986
- "Prix spécial" du Cinéma du Réel , Center national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou , Paris 1987
- Selected best “european films” Europacinema , Rimini 1987
- Special prize of the international jury, Leipzig Documentary Film Week 1987
- Award of the Central Switzerland Radio and Television Company IRG 1987
- Art award (recognition award) of the city of Lucerne 1987
Andreas Faessler wrote in the Luzerner Zeitung in 2018 : "The film can be classified as an important intangible cultural asset of Zug and Switzerland."
The film received strong attention and praise not only in German-speaking Switzerland, but also in the French and Italian-speaking parts of the country and internationally.
Web links
- Ex Voto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ex Voto on the Swiss Films website
- Ex Voto at Erich Langjahrs Film Distribution
- “Ex Voto”: This is what the cinematic homage to Zug should look like today , Zentralplus, December 5, 2018
- Andreas Faessler: Home in Pictures , Luzerner Zeitung, November 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niklaus Oberholzer: "Ex Voto" by Erich Langjahr: About a documentary film in Zug, about the response to this film and about the background to the work on this film. In: Zuger Neujahrsblatt . 1988, p. 97-104 .
- ↑ Andreas Faessler: The home in pictures. In: Lucerne newspaper. November 28, 2018, accessed May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Freddy Buache: Cinemas: Les 22es Journées de Soleure. In: Le Matin . January 18, 1987.
- ↑ Paolo Bertossa: A colloquio con Erich Langjahr, regista di Ex Voto: Riscoprire i veri valori per capire te stesso. In: Giornale del Popolo . August 14, 1987.
- ^ Louis Marcorelles: Cinéma: Le Palmarès du cycle Cinéma du réel. In: Le Monde . March 17, 1987.
- ^ Hitch .: Film Reviews: Ex Voto (Swiss-Docu-Color-16m). In: Variety . New York December 31, 1986.