巴伐利亚打猎即景

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 communitys 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 shes 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.