巴伐利亚打猎即景

ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Betwn the smingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community&#39s prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers&#39 constant riing, 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 &#39different&#39: a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals a teacher is frozen out because she&#39s educated the casual destruction of the young &#39homosexual&#39 is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the &#3930s but the &#3970s nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.