A village so repressed even the cows look uncomfortable. German manners have never been this deadly.
Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.
Acting
Jürgen Vogel simmers with barely contained desperation.
Writing
Dialogue so polite it hurts—every word conceals a wound.
Production
The village itself becomes a character: beautiful, judgmental, inescapable.
Director
Martin Weinhart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures 1990s German cinema's obsession with the 'Heimat' genre's dark mirror—villages as psychological prisons rather than idyllic retreats.
Weinhart largely disappeared from feature filmmaking after this; Durst remains a cult curio traded among German indie enthusiasts.
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