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Echoes of Home

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Filmmaker Stefan Schwietert profiles Swiss yodelers Christian Zehnder, Erika Stucky and Noldi Alder.

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An unusual and strangely persuasive film about Switzerland's folk-music heritage. This documentary is alive with the sound of yodelling.

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Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard 07/10/2009
3/5
A more complex, beautiful film than one had dared to hope. I'll never giggle at yodelling again. Go to Full Review Trevor Johnston Time Out 07/10/2009
3/5
Slightly stretched at 82 minutes, the film nevertheless makes a strong case for this high, wide and lonesome sound expressing the soul of the alpine landscape, beautifully captured by the aerial camerawork. Go to Full Review Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 07/10/2009
2/5
Echoes of Home is a feature-length musical documentary about the Swiss art of yodelling. Unintentionally titter-inducing in execution, yet deadly serious in conception. Go to Full Review Sarah Manvel Critic's Notebook 08/09/2018
Director Stefan Schwietert gives all the artists and their work space to breathe, to reflect, and to clearly depict its import to them and their culture as well. Go to Full Review Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) 08/23/2017
. . .this is a gem of a film, profound, funny, odd, a wonderful surprise and sometimes surprise is simply one of the best things around. Go to Full Review Matthew Turner ViewLondon 01/14/2010
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Mike M @RT59071784 06/22/2009 On the list of outre films thrown up over the years as counterprogramming against the major summer releases, a Swiss-German documentary about yodelling has to rank pretty highly. You will spend most of the compulsively batty "Echoes of Home" wondering whether Sacha Baron Cohen is going to turn up in full Tyrolean gear to confirm your strong suspicions that someone behind the camera is pulling your leg... The film is prone to eccentric choices of its own: it leaves the history and precise musical make-up of the yodel more or less untouched, asks Zehnder to perform one number with a tiny train set going round and around his ankles, and at one point looks to be staging an art happening in the snow involving hula-hooping women and grown men in monster masks. Such scenes at least contribute to a sense of yodelling as mystical, unfathomable and as far from "Bring Me Edelweiss" and those old Ricola commercials as it's possible to get; as the annual "Harry Potter"-led homogenisation of our culture sets in, it's reassuring to know this kind of thing - both the film, and the activity it documents - is still, in every sense, out there. See more Read all reviews
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Stefan Schwietert

Director

Erika Stucky

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Noldi Alder

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Christian Zehnder

Actor

Stefan Schwietert

Writer

Brigitte Hofer

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Movie Info

Synopsis Filmmaker Stefan Schwietert profiles Swiss yodelers Christian Zehnder, Erika Stucky and Noldi Alder.
Director
Stefan Schwietert
Producer
Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler
Screenwriter
Stefan Schwietert
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
German
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 9, 2017
Runtime
1h 22m