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Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria () is a 1969 West German film directed by Peter Fleischmann. It is based on a play of the same name by Martin Sperr, who also played the main role in the film. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.
Plot.
In a small village in Lower Bavaria, twenty-year-old mechanic Abram (Martin Sperr) is suspected
, and "anti-"Heimatfilme"". Examples of such films include Volker Schlöndorff's "Man on Horseback" (1969) and "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" (1970); Peter Fleischmann's "Hunting Scenes from Bavaria" (1969); Volker Vogeler's "Jaider, the Lonely Hunter" (1971); Reinhard Hauff's "Mathias Kneissl" (1970); and Uwe Brandner's "I Love You, I Kill You" (1971). A more recent example of an