!!!Heimatfilm

Heimatfilm (= "homeland film"), typically Austrian and German film 
genre, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s, usually presenting 
the concept of "Heimat" through a trivial plot embedded in a setting 
characterised by a love of nature and rural traditions and ostensibly 
apolitical in character. Set against almost theatrical natural scenery 
(woods, mountains, village) the themes ranged from life in the 
mountains, skiing and hunting stories to rustic film adaptations of 
literary works (L. Ganghofer, L. Anzengruber) to farces with rural 
topics. Almost all renowned Austrian actors and actresses at one time 
appeared in such films, some of them played almost exclusively in them 
(e.g. M. Andergast, W. Haas, A. Hoven, R. Lenz, R. Prack).

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Films: Glaube an mich, 1946; Der Hofrat Geiger, 1947; Echo der Berge 
(Der Foerster vom Silberwald), 1954; Das Maedchen vom Pfarrhof, 1955; 
Die Sennerin von St. Kathrein, 1955; Saison in Salzburg, 1961; 
Ruf der Waelder, 1965.

!Literature
G. Steiner, Die Heimat-Macher. Kino in Oesterreich 
1946-66, 1987; S. Schachinger, Der oesterreichische Heimatfilm 
als Konstruktionsprinzip nationaler Identitaet in Oesterreich nach 
1945, 1993.


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