Gossliwil - Five Essays on Peasant Culture and Peasant Economy, on Work, Property and Time

Overview

The film authors cautiously approach the village of Gossliwil in Bucheggberg, Solothurn, with its 160 inhabitants, and sift through traces of a rural culture of survival under modern conditions without romanticization. Knowledge of the destructive threat of industrialization and the mechanisms of a global food market for the farming world is included in the research. The farmers themselves have their say; at the same time, their tradition is traced in pictures, deliberate narrative rhythm, repetitions and sayings. The result is a clever analysis of Swiss agricultural policy, whose clear structure never slips into nostalgia; a highlight of Swiss documentary filmmaking.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1985

Original language

French

Production

Filmkollektiv Zürich AG

Director

Béatrice Leuthold-Michel,Hans Stürm

Writer

Béatrice Leuthold-Michel,Hans Stürm

Producer

Hans Stürm

Cinematography

Hans Stürm

Music

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt10342282