Sternenberg (film)

Sternenberg

Swiss film poster for Sternernberg
Directed by Christoph Schaub
Produced by Bernard Lang
Written by Sabine Pochhammer
Micha Lewinsky
Starring Mathias Gnädinger
Walo Lüönd
Stephanie Glaser
Music by Balz Bachmann
Peter Bräker
Cinematography Peter Indergand
Edited by Marina Wernli
Distributed by The Walt Disney Company (Schweiz) GmbH[1]
Release dates
  • April 2004 (2004-04)
Running time
90 minutes[2]
Country Switzerland
Language Swiss German

Sternenberg is a 2004 Swiss German language film. It was filmed and produced at locations in the canton of Zürich respectively in Switzerland, and is starring Mathias Gnädinger, Walo Lüönd and Stephanie Glaser.

Cast

Plot (excerpt)

Franz (Mathias Gnädinger) is shocked when he returns after 30 years to his hometown Sternenberg – the primary school of Sternenberg will be closed as there is a just a handful of students in the small isolated village in the Töss Valley, and the teacher thus would lose her job. Franz is concerned personally, hides a secret, as the teacher, Eva Joos (Sara Capretti), is his daughter. But he did not dare to tell Eva that he is her father. And, Eva repeatedly stressed that her father was an "asshole" who has never been interested in his family; she would not want to meet him, even if she could. To help Eva and to get in touch to her, Franz decides to save the school, and practices his action in an unusual way: he subscribes as a student and assumes that he had not attended as a child full-time school. He claims now his "right to education". The trick seems to work, and the minimum number of students is reached, but it needs to ensure that the school will continuously be funded. Franz goes along with the children to school, thus Eva reacts very dismissive at first, but they getting closer...[3][4][2]

Title

The title of the film derives from the former independent municipality of Sternenberg that merged in 2015 with Bauma ZH.

Production

The film was shot at Sternenberg and in the Canton of Zürich and at various locations in Switzerland. Sternenberg was produced in Switzerland.

Reception

Produced as a TV-Movie for the Swiss Television SRF, after its airing the producers decided to release it theatrically in Swiss German cinemas on 22 April 2004, becoming the most successful Swiss Film of 2004. The broadcast on SRF 1 on 3 October 2004 attraced more than 816,000 viewers.

Festivals

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Sternenberg". swissfilms.ch. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  2. 1 2 "Sternenberg". outnow.ch (in German). Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  3. "Sternenberg" (in German). SRF 1. 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  4. "Sternenberg" (in German). cineman.ch. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  5. 1 2 3 "Sternenberg - Awards" (in German). imdb. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
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