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Echoes Of Home

Description: German director Stefan Schwietert celebrates the Swiss tradition of yodelling in this documentary, focusing on three very different exponents of the genre. The filmmaker reveals the personal histories of singers Noldi Alder, Erika Stucky and Christian Zehnder, their influences and the stories they convey through their art.

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Dir: Stefan Schwietert.

Country: Switz/Ger.

Year: 2007.

Duration: 82mins

Yodellers broaden their range in Echoes of Home

Echoes of Home: a beautiful and complex film

By Derek Malcolm
10 Jul 2009

A documentary about three Swiss yodellers may not sound enticing but Stefan Schwietert�s film shows the singers as radical musicians steeped in a tradition that marks their national identity but also determined to explore music from Africa and Latin America.

The result is a more complex, beautiful film than one had dared to hope. I�ll never giggle at yodelling again.