ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, 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 'different' a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
主演:查爾斯·博耶,珍妮弗·瓊斯,彼特·勞福德,海倫·沃克,雷金納德·加德納,雷吉納德·歐文,C.奧佈雷·史密斯,理查德·海頓,Margaret Bannerman,薩拉·奧爾古德,歐內斯特·科薩特,Florence Bates,尤娜·奧康納,諾曼·安斯利,比利·貝文,懷特·畢塞爾,查爾斯·科爾曼,Harold De Becker,Michael Dyne,雷克斯·埃文斯,貝蒂費爾法克斯,比利·格雷,Edna Holland,羅伯特·霍曼斯,George Kirby,奎妮·倫納德,米拉·麥金尼,Clive Mo