Heroes in Tyrole

Helden is a small snowed-in place in the middle of the Alps. There lives the falconer Max that spends his time yodeling accompanied by guitar and giving the tough guys in the village what they deserve. One day he finds out that the greedy and corrupted Mayor wants to transform the picturesque little village into an enormous and tasteless tourist trap. Max decides to help the villagers to prevent this. The film depicts a varied group of people. The village's priest, who his in constant dialogue with God sits in his kitchen in front of a computer, smoking a joint and trying to write sermons while his wife is baking buns. The village's fool, that reads Proust and has a sexual relationship with beautiful twins without knowing that they are actually two. Helden in Tyrol is a comedy that makes fun of List's country and plays with the most common stereotypes of Austrian tradition. It's all that, and kind of a remarkable rock musical in the Alps. Without warning, the whole village burst out with a homage song to joints, or sex, or the moon, or really anything that they can come up with. The director says that the music is the most essential part of the film and that's why yodel sessions and songs compose three fourths of the film. All fight for the village's beauty, the good go to church (and smoke a joint) and the evil are stupid and drink all the time. Helden in Tyrol is a nice and bizarre story that shouldn't be missed.

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Orig. titel
Heldem in Tyrol: Medverkande
Christian Schmidt, Elke Winkens,Silvia Fenz, Christian Pogats...: Producent
Niki List: Manus
N iki List, Walter Kordesch: Foto
Martin Stingl: Musik
Peter Janda: Talat språk
German