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Glorious Deserter (2012) Online
Original Title :
Glorious Deserter
Genre :
Movie / Biography / Drama / History
Year :
2012
Directror :
Gabriele Neudecker
Cast :
Manuel Domann,Markus Klampfer,Alexander Kortoletzky
Writer :
Gabriele Neudecker
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 20min
Rating :
6.7/10
Glorious Deserter (2012) Online

Winter of starvation, 1947. In Austria desertion from the Wehrmacht is still a crime even after the war. The cook, the farmer, the altar boy, and the head pig keeper give insight into the military terror they were subjected to and their reasons for fleeing. The documentary-style film is a montage of the real fates of young deserters and shows moving moments of traumatic memories and the social ostracism experienced after the war.
Credited cast:
Manuel Domann Manuel Domann - Franz
Markus Klampfer Markus Klampfer - The Altar Boy
Alexander Kortoletzky Alexander Kortoletzky - The Head Pig Keeper
Franz Kranzinger Franz Kranzinger - The Cook
Caroline Neudecker Caroline Neudecker - Sister of the Altar Boy
Mario Stockinger Mario Stockinger - Friend of the Head Pig Keeper
Cláudia Wagner Cláudia Wagner - The Farmers Wife


User reviews

Jwalextell

Jwalextell

"The subject remains a taboo. Almost 65 years had to pass before Austria finally overturned the Nazi judgements in 2009 and deserters from the Wehrmacht were vindicated. The film takes us back to 1946/7, the Winter of Starvation in Salzburg. Scarred by traumatic wartime experiences and confronted by social exclusion, four young deserters – a cook, a farmer, an altar boy and a pig keeper - reveal to us the reasons behind their desertion. Successfully walking a tightrope between fiction and documentary, Gabriele Neudecker reveals touching insights into the forgotten victims of National Socialism and their ostracism after the war. (Ludwig Sporrer, Dok-fest Munich) "Beautiful, bewildering and poetical, this is an audacious film unlike anything else you'll see all year, thanks to stylish direction, a wilfully strange script and a glorious central performance from the four young actors." (The Guardian co.uk) "In an unconventional twist, Glorious Deserter is written almost entirely in direct address to the audience, and shot like a contemporary documentary, each of the characters have their part of the film, and although their narrative is fluid you can't help but feel as if there's someone just behind the camera, asking questions. If there were, that "someone" would be Gabriele Neudecker: producer, writer, director and editor of Glorious Deserter, a veteran of three short films taking her first step into the world of features – and finding she can stand."(Orestes Kouzof, Raindance Film Festival)