Heaven or Hell / For God and Country ( Himmel oder Hölle / Ich gelobe ) ( I Promise )

Heaven or Hell / For God and Country (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Himmel oder Hölle / Ich gelobe
Alternate Title: I Promise
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
181 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990, 1994 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Wolfgang Murnberger

Written By:
Wolfgang Murnberger

Actors:
Christoph Dostal ..... Berger
Andreas Lust ..... Rumpler
Andreas Simma ..... Moser
Marcus J. Carney ..... Kernstock
Leopold Altenburg ..... Tomschitz
Pia Baresch ..... Veronika
Josef Kuderna ..... Militärkaplan
Elisabeth Lanz ..... Susi
Markus Schleinzer ..... Schwarzrot

Synopsis:

Heaven or Hell (Himmel oder Hölle):
In this partially black-and-white film-school graduation thesis, the director limns his childhood and boyhood in the projection booth at his father's movie theater and envelops the story in the deaths that took place in his family and in his life. As a young man, he worked at a part-time job in a relative's slaughterhouse, and the close encounter with death at that time seems to have colored his vision ever since. Reviewers praised the movie on the one hand for its technical accomplishments and powerful use of symbolism and on the other hand indicated that as a storytelling venture it left a lot to be desired.

For God and Country (Ich gelobe):
This film which is Austria's entry for the Academy Awards, explores the dreams and, philosophical musings of a young Austrian soldier as wrestles with an obsession with sex and his romantic ideals. Berger, like other young Austrian men must complete his required service in the army. He is a quiet sort and an indifferent soldier. Most of his time is spent daydreaming in the latrine where he carves an elaborate medieval scene on the back of the door. Like most young men in his unit, Berger is looking to get laid as frequently and as impersonally as possible. But in his strange recurring dreams he longs for romance and chivalry.

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