Byways - pilgrimages in Bavarian
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| Original title | Byways - pilgrimages in Bavarian |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Michael Ammann |
| script | Michael Ammann |
| production | Susanne Freyer |
| music | Thomas Osterhoff , Stephan Römer |
| camera | Fabian Rösler |
| cut | Peter Kirschbaum |
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Sideways - Pilgrimage in Bavarian is a German feature film by director Michael Ammann from 2014 .
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The busy Munich architect Richard Beller travels with his 14-year-old daughter Marie to his mother Hilde in the Bavarian province. He wants to take his mother to an old people's home because the 78-year-old shows signs of Alzheimer's . As he is about to load the van with his mother's furniture, she disappears. Since the police do not want to do anything at the moment, he and Marie go looking for Hilde. You suspect that she made her way to Altötting , because Hilde kept talking about the Black Madonna . They discover the old woman in the forest, but she refuses to go to a home. Marie - disappointed in her father and the way he was dealing with his mother - supports her grandmother in her wish to go to Altötting. On the way there, Richard drives the van into a ditch. As they continue on foot, they meet other pilgrims. The three of them can spend the night with the somewhat eccentric farmer Ferdl, but have to flee during the night because he is harassing Hilde. Since they have no more money, a landlord gives them food at a folk festival and gives them some money. Marie learns from her father that his younger brother died in a car accident. Since then, his relationship with his mother has been very tense. When the three of them arrive in Altötting, Hilde goes to a pharmacy to buy a gauze bandage for Richard because he has blisters on his feet. The pharmacist notices Hilde's confused condition and calls the police. Since the three cannot identify themselves, the police want to take them to the station . Richard takes advantage of the police officers' inattentiveness and drives Hilde and Marie in the police car to the Chapel of Grace . He is arrested there, but manages that his mother can pray in peace. Richard and Marie later bring Hilde to the old people's home, where she is greeted by a nun who wants to show her her new home.
Reviews
“A wonderfully played tragic comedy over three generations on the way to Altötting. The trip is a hero's journey into one's own inner world. "
"In his cinema debut, Michael Ammann presents the now well-established pilgrim motif as a cross-generational family therapy."
"The BR co-production" Nebenwege "tells in impressive pictures in front of the most beautiful Bavarian backdrop of a family that overcomes their speechlessness through an involuntary pilgrimage and finds each other again."
Web links
- Byways - Bavarian pilgrims in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Byways - pilgrims in Bavarian at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for byways - pilgrims in Bavarian . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 553 K).
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Those who make a pilgrimage go on foot. Frankfurter Rundschau . July 1, 2015. Accessed October 11, 2015.
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Criticism on byways. epd film . June 20, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^ Pilgrimages in Bavarian. Byways. br.de . May 6, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.