DIE WIESENBERGER - No Business like Show Business
Documentary 90 mins. Director: Bernard Weber / Martin Schilt
Audience Award Solothurner Filmtage and Int. Filmfestival Eberswalde 2012
Festival del Film Locarno, NYC DOC, Tokyo Film Festival, DMZ Korea, DOK Leipzig
Theatrical release since February 2012
Website: www.diewiesenberger.ch
Synopsis
For over 20 years the citizens of Wiesenberg had cultivated the same rituals. The singing mountaineers met once a week in the local church to rehearse together and they yodelled for weddings and birthdays. In the meantime their world has been turned upside down: their CDs have stormed the charts and they are bombarded with concert offers. The allure of show business! Now they are scheduled to perform in Shanghai. This tempting offer turns into a crucial test. A film about mountain dwellers who try to remain authentic, caught between their traditions and show business.
Team
Production Zeitraum Film GmbH
Script, Director Bernard Weber, Martin Schilt
Production
management Robert Müller
Camera Bernard Weber, Martin Schilt, Stéphane Kuthy, Peter Indergand
Sound Dieter Meyer, Robert Müller, Marco Teufen, Simon Graf
Cut Stefan Kälin, Michael Schaerer, Dave D. Leins
Stagiaires Thaïs Odermatt, Susanne Bernard, Matthieu Wenger
Soundmix Guido Keller, Magnetix, Zürich
Grading Patrick Lindenmeier, Andromeda, Zürich
Artworks Andreas Peyer
in collaboration with Lucky Film
in Co-Production with Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Editorial office Urs Augstburger
SRG / SSR, Editor Urs Fitze
and 3sat, Editor Barbara Riesen
Supported by
Bundesamt für Kultur (EDI) Schweiz
Zürcher Filmstiftung
Succès Cinéma
Kulturförderung Kanton Luzern
Kulturförderung Kanton Nidwalden
Kulturförderung Kanton Obwalden
FUKA-Fonds Stadt Luzern
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Schindler Kulturstiftung