(Gossliwil - Cinq Essais sur la culture paysanne et l'économie paysanne, sur le travail, la propriété et le temps)

Content: The film authors cautiously approach the village of Gossliwil in Bucheggberg, Solothurn, with its 160 inhabitants, and sift through traces of a rural culture of survival under modern conditions without romanticization. Knowledge of the destructive threat of industrialization and the mechanisms of a global food market for the farming world is included in the research. The farmers themselves have their say; at the same time, their tradition is traced in pictures, deliberate narrative rhythm, repetitions and sayings. The result is a clever analysis of Swiss agricultural policy, whose clear structure never slips into nostalgia; a highlight of Swiss documentary filmmaking.

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Documentary

Runtime:

232 minutes

Year:

1985

Directors:

Béatrice Leuthold-Michel

Production companies:

Filmkollektiv Zürich AG

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