Bought happiness
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Bought happiness |
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| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany |
| original language | Nidwalden dialect , German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urs Odermatt |
| script | Urs Odermatt |
| production |
Christoph Locher , Alfred Nathan , Walter Saxer |
| camera | Rainer Klausmann |
| cut | Ulrike Pahl |
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Bought happiness (French: La fiancée thaïlandaise , Italian : La felicità intravista , eng.Bride of the Orient ) is a German-Swiss feature film by Urs Odermatt from 1988 . The German director Werner Herzog plays the second leading role alongside the Austrian Wolfram Berger . The Thai actress Arunotai Jitreekan ( อรุโณทัยจิต ตรี ขันธ์ ) stars in a film outside of Bangkok for the first time .
Bought luck takes place in the fictional Nidwalden mountain community of Oberrickenthal , named after the two towns of Oberrickenbach and Isenthal , where the film was shot in the early summer of 1987. In the cinema, Bought Luck was one of the most successful Swiss auteur films with the press and audiences .
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Summary
Zurich Airport : Farmer Windleter is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Arunotai from Thailand. She should live with him on his remote farm. After initial communication difficulties, the two get along better and better. But the prejudice in the village against foreigners is blooming.
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Finding the woman for life is not always easy. For Windleter, a mountain farmer from Nidwalden who has lived alone on a remote farm since the death of his mother, it is an existential problem, because without a wife, nothing works in the house and yard. Windleter's bridal show in the neighboring villages is disheartening. The young women don't want - and the Windleter doesn't want the older women. The dating agency via computer and advertisement is also unsuccessful. For 5,000 francs, he orders a Thai farmer's daughter through a girl dealer. A few weeks later, a young, pretty Thai woman moves into the farm as a married windlass. The jealousy of women, the lust of men and the hypocritical village morality form an unholy alliance.
The film begins and ends with a funeral - in between there is a village-like, fatal case of intolerance, malice, envy, envy, and desire. The cautious and vulnerable love story between the taciturn mountain farmer and his shy Thai young wife has no chance.
background
In the weekly discussion program "Zischtigs-Club" on Swiss television on June 27, 1989 on the subject of "Love: The Imported Goods: Easy-Care Women from the Third World", director Urs Odermatt and the Embrach women dealer Simon Amstad also featured Participant invited. Amstad was visibly upset and abusive. During the broadcast, television viewers complained by phone about Amstad's behavior. "Director Odermatt remembers that shortly after the broadcast in the studio there were further arguments between people behind the camera and Amstad."
criticism
"Urs Odermatt [...] has achieved a little feat with his debut film: a careful choreography of looks that contrasts nicely with the usual chatty character of German-language auteur films."
“Urs Odermatt's bold film, told in succinctly structured images, not only addresses the current problem of missing women in mountain areas, it also deals with the speechlessness and inner brutality of modern people. Far from all Gotthelf idyls, there is bought happiness in the intellectual environment of Peter Fleischmann's critical homeland film Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria . Like his literary role models Horváth and Kroetz , Odermatt does not condemn his characters - he feels sorry for them. The Strindberg word 'It's a shame about people' could be the motto for his film. "
Awards
- In 1988, the FBW film evaluation agency in Wiesbaden awarded “ Bought Luck” the title “valuable”.
- In 1989, Bought Luck was awarded the “R d'argento” at the RiminiCinema film festival in Rimini .
Web links
- Bought happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happiness Bought - Official Website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blick , June 29, 1989
- ↑ "Evil in the Mountains - Urs Odermatt's haunting debut film Bought Happiness ", Frankfurter Rundschau , Heike Kühn, March 11, 1989
- ↑ Gerhart Waeger: Central Switzerland hunting scenes. TR 7, 23/1989