Jakobs Ross

by Katalin Gödrös

Jakob, a young farm labourer, is forced to marry Elsie, a musically talented servant girl. The two soon learn that to escape their lack of prospects they will have to make common cause.

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DATA SHEET

Orginal title:

Jakobs Ross

Year:

2023

Length (min.):

103'

Original language:

Svizzero tedesco

Subtitles:

Tedesco

International Title:

Jakobs Ross

Production:

Turnus Film AG, AMOUR FOU Luxembourg sàrl, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, blue+ Blue Entertainment AG

Worlds sales:

Turnus Film AG

Distributors:

Ascot Elite Entertainment Distribution

Festivals
(selection):

Solothurn, 59. Solothurner Filmtage
17.01.2024 - 24.01.2024

SYNOPSIS

1870: Jakob and Elsie are servants in the house of a factory owner. Elsie turns out to be a musical genius. The landlord offers her an apprenticeship, but he takes advantage of her and Elsie becomes pregnant.

So that he is not suspected, Elsie is forcibly married by the factory owner to the taciturn horse servant Jakob, and moved to a poor hut in the mountains. Jakob suddenly has a wife, has become a farmer and now dreams of social advancement and a steed of his own.

Elsie remains faithful to her goal of becoming a musician. She aborts the child and secretly puts money aside. When she meets a gypsy musician playing in the village square, she decides to run away with him. Jakob finds out and asks the men of the village for help. Against his will, they kill the gypsy man.

Elsie falls into a deep depression. Jakob cures her and realises she is expecting a child by the other man. When the child is born, Jakob decides in favour of the foreign child. But he refuses the milk. Only when he awkwardly begins to sing, desperately invoking the magic of music, does Elsie awaken from her apathy and breastfeed the baby. The two unequal people realise that they can only escape their lack of opportunity if they stick together and face their destiny together.

The film is based on the novel by Silvia Tschui (Jakobs Ross).

LOCATION

Vallemaggia

CAST & CREW

Direction:

Katalin Gödrös

Film script:

Urs Bühler

Cast:

Luna Wedler, Valentin Postlmayr, Eugénie Anselin, Max Hubacher, Luc Feit

Costumes:

Ursina Schmid

Makeup:

Marc Hollenstein, Miriam Blank

Sound:

Yves Bémelmans

Editing:

Isabel Meier

Music:

Balz Bachmann

Producers:

Anita Wasser, Michael Steiger, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

More:

Sound design: Manu Gerber

Re-recording mix: Jacques Kieffer

Compositing: Patrick Baumann, Daniel Müri

Production design: Marion Schramm

Special effects: Oliver Keller

Lighting design: Marc Lubosch

Casting: Corinna Glaus, Nora Leibundgut, Mirjam Schilliger

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