Sternenberg (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Star Mountain |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Schaub |
| script | Micha Lewinsky |
| production | Feature film |
| music |
Courtship Bachmann Peter Bräker |
| camera | Peter Indergand |
| cut | Marina Wernli |
| occupation | |
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Sternberg is a Swiss love story and a comedy film from 2004. The film was originally only for broadcast on television thought but was after the shooting following a ruling by the Swiss television brought still in theaters.
Sternenberg was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2005 for best feature film.
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After 30 years abroad, Franz Engi is returning to his home village of Sternenberg in the Zurich Oberland. A lot has changed there during his absence. He moves into the former Gasthof Sternen , which he inherited and now wants to sell. The primary school teacher Eva lives in the apartment on the first floor, whose school is threatened with closure due to a lack of students.
Franz tells the councilor Hans Grob that Eva is his daughter. However, Franz keeps this secret to himself, especially he is afraid to tell Eva about it. He decides to help her with school by going to school again at the age of 69. This makes him the oldest primary school student in Switzerland.
The school inspector Freudiger is not at all happy about this and switches on his friend and economically savvy politician Walter Jauch. You want to pay a visit to the school and put an end to the hustle and bustle.
Reviews
"Lively like a comedy, romantic like a love story, touching like a melodrama and homely like a homeland film."
“Even if the pure content of“ Sternenberg ”seems to smell of spicy, light country life, it is not a soap in the chicken coop that Zurich filmmaker Christoph Schaub presents to us in dialect. The script interweaves comic, melodramatic and (even) ironic elements in a sophisticated and rhythmically meticulous balance to create a portrait of a village community. Like a cross-section through the cream of the various generations of Swiss actors, the prominent cast, with their pointed appearances, also appears. (....) The tones have definitely become quieter and more differentiated since Franz Schnyder's thundering Gotthelf films and Kurt Früh's lovely worker realism. At the same time, "Sternenberg" could be described as a homeland film in the sense that it thought underground and carefree about which micro-components this term could be composed of. "
““ Sternenberg ”does a successful balancing act between a touching homeland film and the socially critical engagement of Kurt Früh. Here, too, the strength lies in the precise drawing of inconspicuous and narrow-minded petty bourgeoisie; here too, conflicts are resolved without artificially imposed actions, but in clever dialogues. Schaub is an unspectacular director, and that makes the movie credible, warm and emotionally charged. "
Web links
- Sternberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Trailer