MOVIES - DOCUMENTARIES
CROSS OVER
by Thomas Tielsch
The filmmaker's route follows the course of the Rhine, the oldest route leading from the North to Italy. He takes a look at the urban network of the Carnival cliques in Basel: a submarine of fools, so to speak, which surfaces once a year and eventually explodes. He arrives to an Austrian village whose inhabitants still spoke only one generation ago Slovenian dialect with each other. He visits the town of Linz, where folk music mixes with the pounding of the steelworks. Turning back, with homeless companions, he's looking for paradise in the Appenzell: to hear the noises of country dwellers and the sounds of modern times. Rural workers' songs, as well as urban country music in Basel. A polka for three electric guitars. Improvisation and ritual.
Credits
Year: 1996
Country: D, CH
Running Time: 90 Min.
Director: Thomas Tielsch
Author: Thomas Tielsch, Niels Bolbrinker
Producer: Thomas Tielsch, , Karin Koch
Executive Producer: Karin Koch
Co-Producer: Dschoint Ventschr
Camera: Niels Bolbrinker
Editor: Thomas Tielsch
Sound: Paul Oberle
Music: Andreas Litmanowitsch
Cast: Attwenger