ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and cl
ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus: quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different': a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
主演:雪莉·伊顿,理查德·怀勒,乔治·桑德斯,玛丽亚·罗姆,Marta Reves,埃莉萨·蒙特斯,Beni Cardoso,赫伯特·弗莱史曼,Geraldo José Torres Camargo,Maria de Lourdes,Yuma Duarte,Cornélio dos Santos Farias,赫苏斯·佛朗哥,Valentina Godoy,Alberto Land,迪尔玛·洛埃斯,沃尔特·瑞拉