Das Fest des Huhnes

• Frank Oladeinde
• Klaus Fenzl
• El Hadji Malick Cisse
• Meinrad Nell ( narrator)

The Feast of the chicken is a 1992 by Walter Wippersberg staged, the genre of the mockumentary attributable to an Austrian film. It is a production of the ORF Upper Austria Regional Studio for shipment art pieces.

Action

The manners and customs of the resident in Upper Austria " natives " are described by African explorers in the style of European explorers. They encounter a completely new cultural phenomena. Wippersberg turns it in terms of " whiteness " the research principle used by European researchers to first operate ethnological studies and make then in the form of a documentary of the general public to.

The film's title comes from the fact that researchers must make the discovery that the churches are empty, the people, however, find themselves together in tents, drinking gallons of beer, mainly to eat chicken and then then collectively perform the Vogerltanz. They draw the conclusion that the lamb was replaced as victims symbol of chicken.

" The feast of chicken " is continued in Dark, Mysterious Austria.

Reviews

• The Austrian newspaper Der Standard said: "Too cool academic commentary of the ethnologist (...), the film presents a wonderfully strange view of the ( Upper) Austrian Life The sarcastic and perfectly solid contrast of image and sound merge into a single unit with ironic. explosive force. " cited by
• The Austrian daily Kurier said: " Perhaps the most original, possibly meanest show that the ORF aired in 1992, a parody of the most autocratic, all interpretive expedition films, has now already achieved cult status. " cited by

Awards

• Television Prize of the Austrian Adult Education