Hirtenreise ins dritte Jahrtausend

"I cost less than the hay," says shepherd Thomas Landis, who travels between seasons with a huge bleating flock and explains why his employers rely on him. In him and other shepherds the film follows between valley and mountain, Erich Langjahr discovers the persistent and by no means romanticized dialogue between nature and man that characterizes many of his films. Between canned ravioli on the alp and the birth of a sheep, images of quasi-nomadic existences are conveyed that ask with appropriate seriousness where man might find himself. The answer to this is not simple, it lies somewhere between this work directed against the noise of time and the closeness to people that the filmmaker establishes. (Patrick Holzapfel)