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25/G1: Gestern hots grengt
Film premiere with live music:
A quiet, haunting film about an alpine pasture – and what remains. GESTERN HOTS GRENGT is a poetic portrait of the Königreichalm in the Kemet Mountains, a small, karstic high-plateau mountain massif in the Dachstein region, where director and photographer Christoph Huber has spent part of his summers as a cattle herder together with his family for the past 15 years.
In recent years, it was especially the old hut logbooks of the Königreichalm that sparked his curiosity.
“Herders, farmers, hunters and other visitors have signed these books, preserved since the 1950s, leaving behind their emotions, thoughts and topics for future generations. The brevity of these entries leaves plenty of room for interpretation and imagination, yet at the same time they document the profound transformation of alpine culture over the past seven decades,” Huber explains.
Out of this intimate connection grew an illustrated radio play that unfolds its full effect on the big cinema screen. Its foundation lies in the hut book entries, which Huber has condensed into a narrative about change and continuity, about life and death on the mountain pasture. For this, the film project received the 2025 Folk Culture Award of the Province of Styria.
With Klaus Meissnitzer, Huber found the ideal partner for the sound design of the audio play. The musician from the Enns Valley composed, arranged, and recorded the film music. Images, voices, and sounds interweave into a moving journey through the history of the alm.