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HeimatfilmHeimatfilm (= "homeland film"), typically Austrian and German film genre, particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s, usually presenting the concept of "Heimat" through a trivial plot embedded in a setting characterised by a love of nature and rural traditions and ostensibly apolitical in character. Set against almost theatrical natural scenery (woods, mountains, village) the themes ranged from life in the mountains, skiing and hunting stories to rustic film adaptations of literary works (L. Ganghofer, L. Anzengruber) to farces with rural topics. Almost all renowned Austrian actors and actresses at one time appeared in such films, some of them played almost exclusively in them (e.g. M. Andergast, W. Haas, A. Hoven, R. Lenz, R. Prack). Films: Glaube an mich, 1946; Der Hofrat Geiger, 1947; Echo der Berge (Der Förster vom Silberwald), 1954; Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof, 1955; Die Sennerin von St. Kathrein, 1955; Saison in Salzburg, 1961; Ruf der Wälder, 1965. Literature: G. Steiner, Die Heimat-Macher. Kino in Österreich 1946-66, 1987; S. Schachinger, Der österreichische Heimatfilm als Konstruktionsprinzip nationaler Identität in Österreich nach 1945, 1993.
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