Walter Wippersberg

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Walter Wippersberg

Born July 4, 1945 · Steyr, Austria

Died January 31, 2016 · aged 70

No biography available.

Known For

St. Petri SchneeSt. Petri Schnee · 1991
St. Petri Schnee
7.01991
MovieDrama
In Morwede, a remote Westphalian village, the doctor meets Dr. Amberg in the 1930s.
The Feast of the ChickenThe Feast of the Chicken · 1992
The Feast of the Chicken
7.91992
MovieDocumentaryComedy
The morals and customs of the "native peoples" of Upper Austria are described by a team of anthropologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in the style of European and American anthropologists in the non-western world. While making the film, they discover new cultural phenomena. Wippersberg turns around the research methodology of Western anthropologists of performing ethnologic studies, and then popularising them by means of a documentary film.
Darkest AustriaDarkest Austria · 1994
Darkest Austria
7.01994
MovieDocumentaryComedy
A team of the All African Television network, wanders into the darkest regions of the Eastern Alps. They observe the habits and rituals of the natives and make not one, but two ethnological major break-through discoveries.
Attempted FlightAttempted Flight · 1976
Attempted Flight
8.01976
MovieDrama
The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.

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