Foreign country
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Foreign country |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luke Gasser |
| script | Luke Gasser |
| production | Luke Gasser |
| music | Luke Gasser |
| camera | Roger Brülisauer |
| cut | Reinhard Steiner |
| occupation | |
| |
Fremds Land is a western film from Swiss production, which Luke Gasser presented as producer, director, screenwriter and film composer in 2003. Critics praised the filmmaker's and those involved, but criticized the result.
action
A young woman learns the story of a trapper from a bundle of letters she found:
The servant David from Central Switzerland flees the Napoleonic troops during the Russian campaign, to which he was forcibly conscripted in 1810. When he returned to his homeland, he not only found his private circumstances - his bride made a promise to someone else - unsatisfactory: after a revolutionary spirit of optimism, everything was in order again, and David remained one of the underprivileged. He is caught poaching and shoots a man, whereupon he flees to America.
David now lives in the new country as a free trapper who now and then remembers old times and his homeland with longing.
criticism
Critics praised the author's “socio-historical knowledge” and his “attempt to give two great historical Swiss events ( Beresina and wave of emigration) a face”; She was equally impressed by the enthusiasm of the participants, but clearly criticized the fact that the fact of a low-budget production is clearly visible when "two picture-book mercenaries trudge through central Switzerland and pretend they are in the Russian steppe". In particular, the America part fell away, "like an epilogue that was too long after the action-rich, flashbacked and nested main part of the film".
The lexicon of international films summarizes: “A historical film by the Swiss one-man film company Luke Gasser, which describes a fictional emigrant life with passion, energy and little money. Even if a lot remains arbitrary, he always comes up with great landscapes and convinces with his staging ingenuity, which is of course due to financial hardship. "
Web links
- Fremds country in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Foreign country at artfilm
Individual evidence
- ^ Doris Senn in Cinéma
- ^ Foreign country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .