Washed Ashore ( Angeschwemmt )

Washed Ashore (DVD) (*)

$27.99

Original Title: Angeschwemmt
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min + 12 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1994 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Written By:
Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Actors:
Josef Fuchs ..... Himself
Vickerl Albrecht ..... Himself
Kastner Herbert ..... Himself
Helene Rotaru ..... Herself
Aurel Rotaru ..... Himself
Ven. Gyosei Masunaga ..... Himself
Franz Köhler ..... Himself
Harry Märtin ..... Himself
Anatoli Bulavitsky ..... Himself / musician
Valentin Kiriychuk ..... Himself / musician
Polina Schestova ..... Herself - Musician / singer

Synopsis:

Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself, and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. They are of all types: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on the Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. They are all linked by the huge current against which they are swimming. The film tells of all these people, their stories and longings, tranquil images by an unobtrusive camera tell of the innumerable people who drowned and are now buried in the "Cemetery of the Unknown" in Albern, likewise, of the Romanian shipper who has been sitting tight with his wife on his tug in Vienna for almost a year, because the blockade of the Danube in the former Yugoslavia prevents him from going home.

The environment of the Danube river consists of two major factors, the river and the people who live by it. And many live by it: fishermen, cemetery guardsmen, bhuddist monks, Donauinsel gardeners, homeless people and soldiers. An unobtrusive camera narrates of the numerous corpses drawn from the river and buried in the "graveyard of the nameless", as well as the story of the captain of a Romanian freighter and his wife who cannot return home due to the river's blockade in the course of the civil war in Yugoslavia. Nikolaus Geyrhalter's first movie from the year 1994 is "an unspectacular documentary movie, which makes even the biggest clichés seem plausible and convincing.'

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 24 November, 2012.

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