Angeschwemmt (1994)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Writer:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

'Washed up' presents a portrait of people who spend their lives on the banks of the river Danube or on the river itself. (Robert Buchschwenter) |

Plot Keywords:

River

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Washed Ashore

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

Austria

Language:

German

Color:

Black and White

A quiet documentary that catches the riverbank-athmosphere

"Angeschwemmt", Nikolaus Geyrhalters first full-lenght documentary, focuses on a place called "Friedhof der Namenlosen" (The Cementary of Unknown Dead), a place, where all those nameless suicides, washed ashore on the Danube-riverbanks have been buried. The film get's the old grave-digger and other people talking about there lives alongside the river and creates a very special athmosphere: you almost get to sense the fog and the dampness of the Danube-meadows.