Echoes of Home

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Echoes of Home

2007

1h 22m

Documentary

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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

A more complex, beautiful film than one had dared to hope. I'll never giggle at yodelling again.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 10, 2009

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Trevor Johnston

Time Out

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.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 10, 2009

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

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.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 10, 2009

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Sarah Manvel

Critic's Notebook

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.

Aug 9, 2018

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Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee (British Columbia)

. . .this is a gem of a film, profound, funny, odd, a wonderful surprise and sometimes surprise is simply one of the best things around.

Aug 23, 2017

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Rated: 0/5

Jan 14, 2010

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Mike M

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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/22/09

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Stefan Schwietert

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Noldi Alder

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Christian Zehnder

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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