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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON EARTH

DER SCHÖNSTE PLATZ AUF ERDEN

By Elke GROEN

GOLDEN GIRLS FILMPRODUKTION & FILMSERVICES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2020

This community shows a society in transition, a microcosm reflecting Europe’s zeitgeist.

Festivals
& Awards

Diagonale 2020
Crossing Europe 2020
Berlinale - EFM 2021
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    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elke GROEN
    • Writer(s)
    • Elke GROEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Arash T. RIAHI (Golden Girls Filmproduction & Filmservices), Sabine GRUBER (Golden Girls Filmproduction & Filmservices), Elke GROEN (Groen.Film)
    • Synopsis
    • 2016, presidential election in Austria. Pinkafeld, a small town in Austria’s federal state of Burgenland suddenly becomes the focus of the world. Pinkafeld’s inhabitants are enraged because "their" Pinkafeld was portrayed in the international media as a Nazi village due to the fact that it was and is the home town of "their" Norbert Hofer. Hofer was the first right-wing populist candidate of the Austrian Freedom Party who had realistic chances of becoming Federal President. More than 70% of Pinkafeld’s inhabitants supported him, even though the majority of the community was social democratic.

      In December 2016, director Elke Groen started to listen to the people in Pinkafeld, and she stayed until 2019. In between lies a chronology of Austrian contemporary history, marked by the Ibiza scandal and two new elections.

      "The Most Beautiful Place on Earth" is a portrait of a microcosm and its changes over several years. The film depicts a multi-layered picture of a much larger society that has been divided by populism and yet has never given up the longing for unity. The film gives surprisingly reflective municipal politicians, restaurant owners, farmers, disco owners, pensioners and asylum seekers a chance to speak. Their hopes and fears reflect the challenges of our time.

      A film that takes the time to listen to the "other side" in order to understand.
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