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.
热拉尔·德帕迪约,阿曼德·阿山特,西格妮·韦弗,劳恩·迪恩,安赫拉·莫利纳,费尔南多·雷伊,迈克尔·维克特,切基·卡尤,凯文·杜恩,弗兰克·兰格拉,马克·马戈利斯,卡里奥·塞勒姆,Billy L. Sullivan,约翰·赫夫南,阿诺德·沃斯洛,史蒂芬·威丁顿,费尔南多·古林·库弗,胡安·迭戈·博托,Achero Mañas,杰克·泰勒