Fusilier Wipf

Fusilier Wipf is a Swiss film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and Hermann Haller from 1938, based on the novel by Robert Faesi. It is a key film of spiritual defense.

" Fusilier Wipf is the cinematic treatment of a literary novel. which plays in the period from 1914-1918 in the beautiful Swiss mountains. What you see here is neither a military nor a war movie. In more serious and more cheerful way pass by the episodes of the civil and Militätleben a young Swiss and condense into a compelling storyline, in which of course the romantic love experience of the hero is not missing. The magnificent peaks of the impressive Alps form the background to the varied plastic film designed Done "

Action

On 1 August 1914 to discuss customer 's hairdressing salon Coiffeurmeister return - including the notary and the butcher - the mobilization of Germany, Belgium and Russia. The Swiss army is mobilized, and the hairdresser 's assistant Reinhold Wipf is mobilized for border protection. It delivers in the Valais Mountains, to the lakes of Ticino and in the Jurassic forests active duty and in this time from the bumbling, inexperienced and somewhat effeminate boys a soldier the respect of comrades and superiors acquires. Military service also separates him from Rosa recurrence, the somewhat campy daughter of his teacher - that he finds in the native Vreneli his great love.

Criticism

" Clearly arrested time of its construction in the technical standard, the propaganda film gives an interesting insight into the mood of Switzerland in 1938. "

1938 in film Hermann Haller (film editor) Screenplay Richard Schweizer Film score Spiritual defence
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