"The Holy Land of Tyrol” /original: Bergblut/, the German - Italian movie from 2010 focuses on the life of a fictional family played out against true historical events.
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Katharina (Inga Birkenfeld) is a Bavarian woman with a Tyrolean husband, furniture maker Franz (Wolfgang Menardi). Bavaria is occupied by the French. After Franz accidentally kills a French soldier in the Augsburg marketplace, he and Katharina flee to his family’s farm in Tyrol, a county with strong ties to Austria but variously occupied by Bavaria or France following Austria’s defeat by Napoleon. Katharina finds herself despised by members of Franz’s Catholic family because of her Bavarian ethnicity, but eventually earns their respect after she applies herself to chores on the farm. The Tyroleans are a proud people chafing under French occupation. They temporarily achieve independence after a revolt led by innkeeper Andreas Hofer /LINK/. But Katharina knows that their victory is only temporary, and that the French will return to crush them. Additionally, the French have continued to seek Franz, whom they have deemed a murderer. Katharina concocts a drastic plan to keep her husband from returning to war and facing certain death. But it may have serious consequences for her.
The film won Audience Awards for Best Film at the Munich Film Festival and at the Lessinia (Italy) Film Festival . It was also a film festival selection in other cities in Italy, Germany, China, France, Brazil and the U.S. (San Francisco and Cleveland).
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"The Holy Land of Tyrol” is a remarkable love story, played out across the epic sweep of historical events in a period of momentous change and conflict. Director Philipp J. Pamer made his feature film directorial debut at age 25 with this film, prior to which he had directed several shorts. Pamer, himself a descendant of Tyrolean revolutionary Andreas Hofer, filmed the feature in 35mm mainly in the South Tyrol where historical events occurred, in order to capture the grandeur and beauty of the Tyrolean landscape. Only the aerial shots were created digitally. Some scenes were shot in Augsburg and Munich.
The film won Audience Awards for Best Film at the Munich Film Festival and at the Lessinia (Italy) Film Festival . It was also a film festival selection in other cities in Italy, Germany, China, France, Brazil and the U.S. (San Francisco and Cleveland).
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