Director Stefan Ruzowitzky reinvents the “heimatfilm” - a sentimental film with a regional background. He doesn’t want to break with that tradition; he wants to turn it modern. “Stefan Ruzowitzky’s [Austrian] Alp saga. A peasant from the Mühlviertel dupes both his neighbors and the priest by giving his farm to the farmhands. The collectivization of agriculture is depicted by Ruzowitzky like an overwhelming revolutionary theater, the superelevation of the heimatfilm owes its means to commercials as well as to surrealism, but most effects are set very convincingly. A precise story of emancipation.” (Bert Rebhandl)
Director Stefan Ruzowitzky reinvents the “heimatfilm” - a sentimental film with a regional background. He doesn’t want to break with that tradition; he wants to turn it modern.
“Stefan Ruzowitzky’s [Austrian] Alp saga. A peasant from the Mühlviertel dupes both his neighbors and the priest by giving his farm to the farmhands. The collectivization of agriculture is depicted by Ruzowitzky like an overwhelming revolutionary theater, the superelevation of the heimatfilm owes its means to commercials as well as to surrealism, but most effects are set very convincingly. A precise story of emancipation.” (Bert Rebhandl)