Menschen, die vorüberziehen

It's a wonderful swiss film about a circus group touring through the swiss countryside. Obviously they are rather poor and have always some financial worries. On the other hand they're kind of free and liberal. This builds an absolute contrast to the landscape full of strong mountains and settled people. But settled means also immobile and unfree. It's more bounden to a certain destiny, the one of the farmer. As i read, it's loosely based on the play "Katharina Knie" by Carl Zuckmayer. This is one of my personal favourites within swiss film history. The film was a success in Switzerland, but in cause of WWII this film couldn't go to the festivals and get popular. The photography by Harry Ringger is excellent as you can see in the screenshots. This is one the rare films of the painter, director and maybe most known as actor: Max Haufler. He committed suicide in 1965 after failing to get backing for his film Der Stumme (The Mute), based on the novel by author Otto F. Walter. This story seems also to be one of his autobiographical approaches to those, who couldn't realize themselves within their society. Those who rather lived in some kind of freedom, than to adapt tradition. Or was it just, that they couldn't get back to tradition?