剧情简介：ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community,first at church,then at the village festival,Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing,bawdy humour,continuous gossip,and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man,their idle malice and childish clowning,always on the edge of unpleasantness,receive some focus quite without foundation,the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different' a young widow is ostracised,more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
