Father's garden - my parents' love

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Movie
German title Father's garden - my parents' love
Original title Father's garden - my parents' love
Country of production Switzerland
original language German , Swiss German
Publishing year 2013
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Peter Liechti
script Peter Liechti
production Peter Liechti
camera Peter Liechti
Peter Guyer
cut Tania Stocklin

Father's Garden - My Parents' Love is a documentary by Peter Liechti in which he portrays his parents Max and Hedi Liechti. The film was awarded the Zurich Film Prize in 2013 and the Swiss Film Prize in 2014.

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Father's garden shows the everyday life of Liechti's parents. You are retired and live in a block of flats in a Swiss city. When the conversation turns to the past, a fundamental conflict is revealed between the petty-bourgeois, religious life of the parents and their son, who was involved in the youth movement and in the cultural scene: "You always rebelled," the mother once said. But also between the parents there are profound differences in their views, interests and ways of life; and the meticulously tended allotment garden that gave the film its title turns out to be the father's escape from the demands of the mother, who would have preferred to travel and withdraw into the world of her books. The patriarchal worldview of her generation is not questioned by her mother either: "Today women are allowed to express their opinions, but the man is in charge and the woman simply arranges herself so that there is no row."

Individual conversations between Peter Liechti and his parents were re-enacted as puppet shows and cut between the documentary passages. The wording, however, corresponds to the interviews that Liechti conducted with his parents in 2010 and 2011.

Awards

  • Special jury award - SSA / Suissimage, for the most innovative Swiss film from all sections, Visions du Réel 2013
  • Zurich Film Award 2013
  • Fedeora Award European Documentary 2013, Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz
  • Swiss Film Award 2014: Categories Best Documentary and Best Montage (Tania Stöcklin)

literature

  • Peter Liechti. In plain language: questions to my parents. St. Gallen, Vexer Verlag, 2013. (The book contains further discussions with the parents as well as notes on the film and his work.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Father's Garden - The Love of My Parents . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 890 K).
  2. ↑ According to the opening credits.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visionsdureel.ch
  4. ↑ https://peterliechti.ch/page.php?1,0,18,0