Speckbacher (oder die Todesbraut)

The Jazz/Pop Workshop of the Mozarteum Salzburg, Department Innsbruck, sets the story of Josef Speckbacher to music with specially written film music. In the film, Speckbacher is commissioned by Andreas Hofer to liberate Kropfsberg Castle near Brixlegg, which is occupied by the French. The film was shot with thousands of extras in the summer of 1912 at original locations in Tyrol. Museum artefacts such as the original sabre were used as props. SPECKBACHER is one of the few surviving Austrian feature films made before the First World War and was long considered lost. In contrast to the often fragmentary films of the early period, this one has survived in its entirety and with the monochrome colouring typical of the time.