“Denn auf den Bergen, ja da ist die Freiheit,
denn auf den Bergen ist es doch so schön,
dort wo auf grauenhafte Weise
der Jennerwein zugrund mußt gehn.”Jaider, der einsame Jäger [Jaider, the Lonely Hunter] (Volker Vogeler, 1971)
Sep
5
Mother Teresa
Gottfried John as Jaider (via). DP: Gérard Vandenberg.
Mother Teresa's death day: someone assists the poor. A Heimatfilm in reverse and Italowestern in disguise.
Jennerwein-Lied, 19th c.
Jaider, just returned home from the Franco-Prussian War and incapable to find work, turns to poaching to feed himself and his impoverished town. Soon he leads a gang of poachers, who in their turn are hunted by Bavarian soldiers and state-sanctioned hunters. Loosely based on legendary “Jaider” (“hunter”) and poacher Georg Jennerwein.
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Tätowierung [Tattoo / The Delinquent] (Johannes Schaaf, 1967)
Nov
18
National Adoption Day
Benno (Christof Wackernagel), a pensive young man with dark hair and dark eyes. DPs: Petrus R. Schlömp & Wolf Wirth.
16 year old Benno (Christof Wackernagel) lives in a reformatory until the Lohmanns, a rich middle-aged #WestBerlin business couple decides to adopt him. A new world opens up, one of adulthood and responsibility. For the teenager, this neatly regulated new bourgeois life feels all wrong.