Über die Jahre

It is winter in the northern Waldviertel, a handful of people are still working in the textile factory, which was founded in the previous century. Soon everything will come to a standstill, but something is still going on: the man with the camera comes back regularly to ask questions. In the end, he has accompanied the protagonists living in the area for more than ten years and can also tell us something about the surprisingly diverse connection between work and identity. For some of them, this cannot be created in a meaningful way within a logic of economic exploitation - which is why they are unemployed, but by no means idle. Film critic Patrick Wellinski: "With Über die Jah-re Geyrhalter proves himself to be a humanist of the first order, after all he has made a film about the people who stay and not about the work that disappears. This equation contains the full power of the long-term documentary film (...)." (Marion Biet / Nico-le Kandioler / Isabella Reicher)

In the presence of Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Photo: Austrian Film Museum