Cinema Tribuna: «Animals Farm - Der Aufstand der Tiere» in Ilanz

loosely based on a novel by George Orwell

Animals in power - and the world will be a better place!

In the "fairytale land of the Rhine Valley" there is a farm, a farm. Animals have taken over the scepter here. Freed from humans, they set the tone and finally it begins, true life.

In times when humans are preparing to destroy the earth, such a social revolution as Orwell designs would be a comforting utopia: animals take the things of life into their own hands, or rather paws and claws. Society is reconstituted - without capital, surplus value and money. Everyone is equal.

Ranisch and Rupf climb into the ring of the many animal figures and demonstrate in an exemplary way how a new "togetherness" is created, in which everyone is supposedly doing well; some of course a little better, but not everyone knows that.

Orwell's novel bears the deliberately trivializing subtitle "A Fairy Tale". But fairy tales are not always beautiful. They are sometimes brutal: wolves eat grandmothers, stepmothers murder daughters, witches end up in the oven. And what Orwell initially comes across as a harmless children's story turns out to be a hard-hitting, satirical indictment of totalitarian systems. Because as soon as everyone is equal, some become more equal and the clever pigs expand their supremacy into a dictatorship...