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From: briand@tekig1.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Obscure films
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 14:38:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 14:38:30 1985
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> If you liked *Local Hero*, look for *The Apple War*. It has some of the same
> feel, but is more whimsical and fantastical. We came in in the middle of it
> at a science fiction convention. It was Swedish, and was about a plot by
> bureaucrats to turn a village into "Deutch-neyland". The villagers are
> assisted by a friendly giant. Someday I want to see the whole thing from the
> beginning.

Wow!  I have been watching this net for over a year to see if anyone else was
EVER going to mention *The Apple War*.  It is DEFINITELY a great movie, and it
is too bad it hasn't gotten wider play.  The Duetchneyland plot was hatched by
a big fat stereotype of a German developer.  The villagers are assisted by a
local girl.  With powers.  However, you're halfway into the movie before you
realize that you've been accepting these "powers" without question.  Eventually
the entire Norse panoply of Valhalla is called in to assist - it might help but
isn't necessary to understand a little Norse mythology.

The movie is played light and airy.  It is "uplifting" without being sappy.
The folk music is great.  The humor is bizarre, slapstick, tender, and not
heavyhanded.  It is the VERY BEST kind of fantasy, and makes things like
*Wizards* or Tolkien adaptations seem like they're trying too hard.

Let me put it this way - if I could find a videotape of this movie, I'd not
only purchase the tape, I'd purchase a VCR to play it on too!  If it ever comes
to your local revival house, SEE IT!

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.