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November 10, 2022

Kino KOSMOS

The Farmer and the Bobo

Kurt Langbein | AT | 2022 | 98 minutes | D

A Facebook post goes viral: mountain farmer Christian Bachler is outraged by an article by Florian Klenk. The editor-in-chief of the "Falter" newspaper praises a ruling in which a farmer was fined because his cows behaved aggressively towards tourists. He is an "arrogant bobo" and has no idea about agriculture, the mountain farmer rants against the city dweller. He continues, "Get off your bobo horse and come for an internship on my farm." The video reaches 250,000 people.

A statement by Christian "triggers" Florian Klenk: He has never had to have existential fears. That's true. And that's why he travels to the highest farm in Styria and gets to know the farmer personally, who practices alternative agriculture at 1,450 meters with vegetable cultivation, alpine pigs, cows, yaks and much more.

But the farm is burdened with debt. In addition, subsidies are decreasing and the price of milk is collapsing. The farmer can no longer pay his debts and the Raiffeisenbank wants to auction off the farm. The boss quickly launches a crowdfunding campaign on social media. Within two days, 420,000 euros are raised and Bachler is debt-free. The farmer is now visiting the city of Vienna and doing an internship at the Falter editorial office. City and country are growing together.

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Genre: Documentary

Agriculture and Nutrition

Swiss premiere

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