Magic Matterhorn

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Movie
Original title Magic Matterhorn
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German , German , English
Publishing year 1995
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Anka Schmid
script Anka Schmid
production Anka Schmid
music Ben Jeger
camera Ciro Cappellari
cut Inge Schneider
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Magic Matterhorn is an essayistic documentary film from 1995 about the Swiss homeland of the director Anka Schmid . The Matterhorn serves as a starting point for approaching part-time farmers from Zermatt , a Swiss Disneyland yodeler in California and the cabaret cult group Geschwister Pfister .

action

Playfully the film sets out in search of contemporary notions of home and shows real and unreal worlds. It was filmed in the Swiss tourist village of Zermatt at the foot of the Matterhorn and in Disneyland in California near the Matterhorn copy. Anka Schmid confronts concrete living conditions with clichés and dares the balancing act between philosophical thoughts and souvenir kitsch. The Matterhorn serves as her leitmotif. People from Zermatt, tourists from all over the world and an American from Switzerland provide information about their concept of home and their personal relationship with the mythical mountain Matterhorn. The interviews are supplemented with impressions of the mountain and the appearance of a group of cabaret artists.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged that the result was Magic Matterhorn an "amusing documentary film which, in the comparison of the most diverse views, turned out to be quite multifaceted, but which in the long term lacks intensity".

Festivals

  • 23-29 September 1996 Les Diablerets , 27th Festival International du Film Alpin
  • 5th - 15th September 1996 Figueira da Foz , 25th Festival international de cinéma
  • April 28–4. May 1996 Trento , 44th Trento Film Festival International Montagna Esplorazione
  • April 19–11. May 1996 Minneapolis / St. Paul , 14th Rivertown International Film Festival
  • 22.-31. March 1996 Créteil 18, Festival International du Film de Femmes
  • 16.-21. January 1996 Solothurn , 31st Solothurn Film Festival
  • 18.-24. September 1995 Nyon , 26th Festival International du Cinéma Documentaire

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anka Schmid . hierig-heutig.ch, accessed on January 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Magic Matterhorn . Swiss Films , accessed January 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Magic Matterhorn in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on January 20, 2015.