Out Takes 2012 : Harvest


Direct from sold out screenings at festivals worldwide comes this story of romance blossoming between two apprentice farmers during harvest in rural Germany. Marko is an apprentice working in a large agricultural college south of Berlin. If he passes his final examinations he will be a fully-fledged farmer. He doesn`t have many friends outside the workplace and the other apprentices see him as a rather uncommunicative guy and something of a loner, mocking him for buying organic food and never drinking alcohol. However, when new apprentice Jacob joins them, Marko begins to come out of his shell. Against the day-to-day reality of breaking a sweat crop farming and cattle rearing, a tender gentle relationship develops between the two young men. Set on a large farm whose owners run a program for adolescents studying agriculture, only the two main characters are played by professional actors - everyone else in the film is a real member of the local community, actively involved in the real life farming college in which the story is set. This gives the film an honest, matter-of-fact feel as a fictional love story develops against a documentary backdrop. Superbly shot against the plain beauty of the German landscape, Harvest is one of the highlights of the festival.
  • Language: German-English Subti
  • Censor Rating: M
  • Release Date: May 27, 2012
  • Duration: 0 minutes
  • Director: Benjamin Cantu


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