Lowbrow peasant comedy, a genre popular in Germany, about excitement in the country when a sheriff tries to collect a tax on a prize pig..
Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a weird fascination with German regional comedy from the thirties. If you prefer your movies to have, you know, a plot that goes somewhere, skip it. It’s basically a loud neighborhood spat stretched into a feature film. Who will like it: People who enjoy hearing rural ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Carl Froelich
Reggie Morris
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a weird fascination with German regional comedy from the thirties. If you prefer your movies to have, you know, a plot that goes somewhere, skip it. It’s basically a loud neighborhood spat stretched into a feature film. Who will like it: People who enjoy hearing rural dialects and watching people get red in the face over a pig. 🐷 Who will hate it: Anyone who expects subtlety or, like, a functioning pacing structure. It drags. A lot. The whole ..."
Fritz Hoopts
Robert A. Stemmle, August Hinrichs, Walter Supper
Germany
