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Title Chronique paysanne en Gruyère : a peasant chronicle in Gruyère / Aquarius et J.M.H. Productions, la TSR, la SEPT présentent ; scénario et réalisation, Jacqueline Veuve
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2008?]

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (87 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyere region lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990. A year of work and festivities in the family of Conrad and Louise Bapst, their children and grandchildren who live in La Roche (Canton of Frisbourg). In summer, part of the family goes with the herd to the upper pastures, and will move six times in the next three months, as the grass for the cows grows in higher and higher places. At the farm below, the rest of the family mows the hay and the after crop, and tends the vegetable garden. Fall and winter bring new chores, along with feast-days, and the sale of cheeses to pay for rented pastures. We see the family participate in a vote for or against the Swiss Army, and at a meeting where mountain farmers discuss whether or not to join the European Union. The film displays the patient and human approach of an almost silent minority in Switzerland
"The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990. A year of work and festivities in the family of Conrad and Louise Bapst, their children and grandchildren who live in La Roche (canton of Fribourg). In summer, part of the family goes with the herd to the upper pastures, and will move six times in the next three months, as the grass for the cows grows in higher and higher places. At the farm below, the rest of the family mows the hay and the after crop, and tends the vegetable garden. Fall and winter bring new chores, along with feast -days, and the sale of cheeses to pay for rented pastures. We see the family participate in a vote for or against the Swiss Army, and at a meeting where mountain farmers discuss whether or not to join the European Union. The film displays the patient and human approach of an almost silent minority of Switzerland."--Container
Credits Director, Jacqueline Verve ; producer, Jean-Marc Henchoz
Event Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990
Notes In French with English subtitles
Print version record
Subject Farm life -- Switzerland -- Gruyère
Country life -- Switzerland -- Gruyère
Farmers -- Switzerland -- Gruyère -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Cheese -- Varieties -- Switzerland -- Gruyère
Cheese -- Varieties.
Country life.
Farm life.
Farmers -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
SUBJECT Gruyère (Switzerland) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Subject Switzerland -- Gruyère.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Form Streaming video
Author Veuve, Jacqueline
Ryffel, Hugues
Ochsenbein, Edwige
Luthy, Pierre-André
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Other Titles Peasant Chronicle in Gruyere
English subtitle on title frame: Country chronicle