The Peasant's War NEW PAL Docu DVD Erich Langjahr

Description: BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brand new, official studio-released DVD of this great film, imported from Switzerland ( Bauernkrieg ) This is a PAL, Region 0 DVD. This DVD will play on standard DVD players in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia (except Japan, Korea, Philippines and Taiwan), Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand. This DVD will NOT play on standard DVD players in USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Chile. This DVD will NOT play on standard DVD players in USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Chile. This DVD (and any other DVD released anywhere in the world) will play just fine on any multi-region DVD player, bought in USA or elsewhere. It will also play on most computers' DVD drives. Some consumers actually own a multi-region DVD player, without knowing it. 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If these steps don't work, then unfortunately subtitles are not optional. o We now offer FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the world! FILM DETAILS ON CLEARANCE SALE: REDUCED BY $12.00 Original Title: Bauernkrieg Screened, competed or awarded at:Other Film Festival Awards Language Selections:English ( Subtitles ) German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ) German ( Subtitles ) Product Origin/Format:Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 ) Running Time:84 min Aspect Ratio:Fullscreen Special Features:Interactive Menu Scene Access Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:Country: Switzerland ( Region: Germany, Central Europe ) Directed By:Erich Langjahr Written By:Erich Langjahr Actors:Erich Langjahr Synopsis:The central questions are identity, survival and the future of farming. Each of these three aspects is explored in a separate film. BAUERNKRIEG looks into the question of the survival of agriculture, in a period of transition from a state-controlled, planned economy to a free market economy.This is a time in which world trade is being forcibly and dramatically liberalised. Most of today's farmers are putting their faith in advanced technology and selective breeding techniques as the way to survive in the new market situation. Unable to stay the course, many just give up. This film is as noisy as SENNEN-BALLADE was peaceful. Or rather, BAUERNKRIEG appears all the more agitated and vindictive as SENNEN-BALLADE was contemplative and serene. This film, the second in the trilogy that Erich Langjahr is devoting to farming life, has a different setting than the first. From alpine pastures, he has now relocated to the plains. The film's opening and closing shots show farmers demonstrating with cowbells and whistles, speaking out, and carrying out their open air political activities. The farming community of the 90s is on the alert, and the filmmaker records its most pressing problems and most fundamental worries. The narrative highlights various situations and practices which are symptomatic of the evolution and consequent deterioration - this, precisely, is the central issue of the film - of the production methods of a farming community attached, in this case, to livestock farming. Langjahr explores situations ranging from auctions of farming goods which no longer provide their owners with sufficient income to the most efficient methods of reproducing species, from international trade in sperm to industrial slaughter. These situations are presented as archetypes necessary for the progression of his thoughts. Langjahr's film is not so much reportage illustrating an issue as it is a narrative that tells an edifying tale. The detailed account of the cows' artificial insemination, for instance, is based on clear and accessible scientific information. But beyond this we find a metaphysical dimension which in turn suggests a political reading of the practices and positions shown. The bulls are led by a machine which holds them by their nostrils. The route they are forced to take seems absurd, but the peasant's brief explanation makes it seem strikingly normal. One should not conclude that this is a superficial accusation ('those poor animals') - the filmmaker reveals, much as an archaeologist might, the profound logic underlying the industrial production of milk and meat. Up until the horribly long scene showing offal being crushed by a powerful machine, which makes sense when one realizes that this endless mass of bloody waste will be made into cattle food. The dizzying circle of recycling, in which animals eat themselves, is complete. A disturbing film, peasants' war is an insistent examination synthesizing a critical point of view without ignoring the complexity of psychological and economic realities. It is, in other words, a political, impertinent and invigorating film, shot in Switzerland and of general interest. In a sense, a citizen of a film. After SENNEN-BALLADE (ALPINE BALLADE), BAUERNKRIEG (THE PEASANT'S WAR) is the second part of a trilogy on the subject of farming in which an attempt is made to look at the existence of farmers at the end of the 20th century. US/CANADA/MEXICO BUYER WARNING o WARNING: Please note that we sell NTSC/Region 1 DVDs from USA and PAL/Region 2&4 DVDs from other countries. If you have a standard DVD player bought in USA/Canada, and you have not specifically selected it to be able to play multi- region DVDs, please don't bid on PAL Region 2 & Region 4 DVDs - your player will not be able to play them. 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