Crushed Like Hay ( Schotter wie Heu )

Crushed Like Hay (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Schotter wie Heu
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min + 37 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Wiltrud Baier
Sigrun Köhler

Written By:
Wiltrud Baier
Sigrun Köhler

Actors:
Fritz Vogt ..... Himself (manager of the Raiffeisenbank Gammesfeld)
Else Vogt ..... Herself (Fritz Vogts wife)
Friedrich Dürr ..... Himself (manager of EDEKA)
Christiane Dürr ..... Herself (Friedrich Dürrs wife)
Markus Immel ..... Himself (firefighter)
Andrea Herrmann ..... Herself (employee in EDEKA)
Nico Schöffel ..... Himself
Walther Huss ..... Himself
Martha Huss ..... Herself (Walther Huss wife)
Fritz Beck ..... Himself
Ilse Beck ..... Herself (Fritz Becks wife)
Karl Köhnlein ..... Himself
Sandra Boehlke ..... Herself
Willi Breiter ..... Laboratory worker in quarry
Emma Hahn ..... Herself
Willi Huber ..... Himself
Christa Köhnlein ..... Herself (Karl Köhnleins wife)
Lazar Meijc ..... Worker in quarry
Willi Vogel ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Documentary film about the small local bank in the village of Gammesfeld and the seventy year old Fritz Vogt who has been bank manager, cashier and books keeper since 1967, and who knows all people who bank there.

In the small town of Gammel Hohelohischen middle of the field at the northeast corner of Baden-Wuerttemberg, there is a church, a EDEKA shop, village pub, a volunteer fire department, two soccer fields, a gravel plant - and a famous bank. For Raiffeisenbank Gammel field is the last of its kind in Germany, which is operated without a computer. If the figures will be too complicated, takes the banker Fritz Vogt - secretary, bookkeeper, cashier, farmer and the most important man in the village in one person - to Thales calculating machine from 1938. What is the topic of computer for the bank manager then has done well. Since 1967, the time farmer, Raiffeisenbank heads when the weather is nice, the Bank will remain closed, because it must be introduced to hay. Is a miracle that such a bank in difficult economic times like this at all is because the bank in Gammel field should actually a godsend for the ubiquitous McKinsey's this republic be the first victim on the altar of efficiency . But the more amazing that specifically at the business world Gammel field seems to be still in order, because the bank made extremely high profits and returns them in the form of high savings and low lending rates to their customers: 3.5 percent for the savings and 4 , 5 percent for a loan are unique in Germany. Is perhaps in the Hohenlohe region in the world is wrong? Mr. Ackermann, you take over! Who wants now, however, make their way to Gammel field, in order to invest his money here, will have little success. For, according to the principles of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, the customer only receives a loan, which is also involved with investments in the bank - a bank of solidarity. However, the small bank was never without controversy, to change the legal situation of the mid-eighties made a seemingly inevitable closure. But Fritz Vogt and the entire village resisted successfully. Still, the Bank may hold.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 May, 2013.