The cimbri film card

The cimbri

The cimbri

I cimbri

Peter Schreiner 

116' / 

Austria 

/ 1991

Screenings

In Giazza, between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Schreiner portrays the life of this small community where the last traces of the ancient High German language known as Tauc (Cimbrian) have survived. He captures the villagers' daily lives, allowing not only their words but also their long silences and live sounds to speak, using black-and-white images that seem to mourn the disappearance of the ancient language. A document of a disappearing ethnic group.

photo of Peter Schreiner

Peter Schreiner

PeterSchreiner

Peter Schreiner (1957-2023, Austria) has been making experimental documentaries since the 1980s. He studied at the film academy in his home city of Vienna. I Cimbri/The Cimbers (1991), Blaue Ferne/Blue Distance (1995), Totó(2009), Fata Morgana (2012) and the hybrid documentary Lampedusa (2015) were screened in Rotterdam. He has received many awards, including the Main Diagonale Award for best Austrian documentary in 2006. Tage (2023) was selected for IFFR 2023.

photo of Peter Schreiner