Das Erbe der Bergler

Erich Langjahr

A Film about Mountain Haymaking

A unique opportunity to experience the last remaining mountain haymakers in the Muotatal, a valley in Canton Schwyz, Switzerland. Award-winning director Langjahr returns to his beloved Alps to document a group of people continuing the legacy of their forefathers. Every year on Swiss National day, August 1, the Wildheuer climb up the steep mountain of the “Hinteren Heubrig”, fitted out with scythes and wearing wooden shoes with spikes, just as their ancestors did before them. They are part of a generation who have lived with the challenges of nature and survived it. In his film, Langjahr’s poetic realism gives an insight into these people’s experience of the simple life, the very foundation of human existence.

Erich Langjahr

Born in 1944 in Zug. Since 1971 independent filmmaker. 1994 Co-founding of Langjahr Film GmbH together with Silvia Haselbeck (production of documentary films for cinema, distribution of own film productions, as well as films by Walter Marti and Reni Mertens, Isa Hesse, among others)

2009 GEBURT
2006 DAS ERBE DER BERGLER - ALPINE SAGA
2002 HIRTENREISE INS DRITTE JAHRTAUSEND
1998 BAUERNKRIEG
1996 SENNEN-BALLADE
1992 UNTER DEM BODEN
1990 MÄNNER IM RING
1986 EX VOTO
1978 MORGARTEN FINDET STATT