FREE ON CINEGEEK.De Valeska Grisebach - Western 

That's good. The most interesting new films from Germany are made by women. Western is the third feature film by Valeska Grisebach, born 1968 in Bremen and raised in Berlin. A friend Maren Ades, whose distributor "Komplizen Film" Western also produced. If you want to know more about Grisebach, read in the production notes that she grew up with the Western genre. Even more; as a child she could identify best with cowboys! Now she is testing her role models. On the surface, it's easy: Western is a Western. But it's a western playing in Bulgaria. There are no cowboys either, but there are construction workers and farmers. But we discover typical Western set pieces: A campfire, a horse, the stranger in town, rivalry, a woman and even a gun. A group of German construction workers are to build a power plant there in Bulgaria, somewhere on the Greek border, but everything is missing. After all, they fly the German flag. Then foreman Vincent (Reinhardt Wetrek) allows himself a silly remark while the construction workers bathe naked, while a group of women show up on the other side of the river. When construction worker Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) roams the village, history has already got around... There is a lot of talk about the Germans, who of course don't understand a word. But we're in the Western and cowboys hardly speak either. They look each other in the eye and that way they know who's lying...