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    Alpine Saga

    Alpine Saga

    2006

    1:37:17

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    6.8/10 (5)

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    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    Award-winning director Langjahr returns to his beloved Alps to document a group of people continuing the legacy of their forefathers. Every year on Swiss National day, August 1, the Wildheuer climb up the steep mountain of the «Hinteren Heubrig», fitted out with scythes and wearing wooden shoes with spikes, just as their ancestors did before them. They are part of a generation who have lived with the challenges of nature and survived it. In his film, Langjahr's poetic realism gives an insight into these people's experience of the simple life, the very foundation of human existence.

    Director

    Erich Langjahr

    Writers

    Erich Langjahr,

    Stars

    Anton Büeler, Albert Gwerder, Erich Gwerder, Alois Langenegger, Dominic Langenegger,