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By: Hanna von Prittwitz
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The film poster for “Guiching – The Film” with (from left) Jan Haas as Giltico Giltioahinga, Moni Grad as his wife Gertrude, Jakob Grübler as Ronaldus from Saxony and Jakob Vezetou as Sepp, the Roman.
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That must have been a lot of fun: Almost 30 employees of the Gilching community shot the film “Guiching – The Film” in the summer of 2023.
Now the 30-minute film can be seen publicly for the first time.
Gilching
– Even the advertising slogans suggest: A few people had a blast there.
“Guiching – The Film” was made last summer under the direction of filmmaker Jürgen Grübler from “Guiching TV” and cameraman Andreas Wening.
They filmed the 30-minute film about the origins of Gilching, or rather about what it might have been like, together with around 30 people, some of whom live in Gilching and the surrounding area, but almost all of whom worked for the community at the time.
There is not much in the film to be taken seriously, only a little corresponds to historical truth.
“Guiching – The Film” can be seen publicly on March 3rd and 8th in the Layerwork Museum (Brucker Straße 11).
Community employees experienced the premiere at the big Christmas party that took place in January.
“I roared with laughter,” admits Annette Reindel, chairwoman of the Time Travel Association and director of the Layerwork – Time Travel Museum in the Wersonhaus.
Of course, she also played along: “But that wasn’t a major role, I played myself,” she says.
And she is now even more pleased to be able to show the film to the public in the museum.
“We have set up a projector, it will be great fun.”
The idea for the project came from filmmaker Jürgen Grübler, among others.
He is probably known to many people from Gilching through his work in the construction yard.
In his free time he has been making films for many years.
Three years ago he made the cheerful film “We Make Music in Gilching” together with a music school, kindergartens and choirs, which can also be found on YouTube.
“But it was all rather amateurish,” says Grübler.
Things went completely differently with cameraman Andreas Wening, simply because of the technical equipment.
The filming took place in a forest near Gilching.
The actors mostly came by during their lunch breaks to shoot scenes.
“We actually didn’t have any time to learn our lyrics.
“But everything was really well prepared,” says Reindel.
The story revolves around the founding of Gilching on Sunday, May 1, 501 AD.
That was actually a Sunday, but apart from that the rest is happy fantasy, including the date and the supposedly sensational finds that fell into the hands of the professional settlement founder Giltico Giltioahinga and Ronaldus, a “quite wise man from Saxony”.
“Even a slightly late Roman had a hand in it,” it continues, somewhat cryptically.
The Roman in the film is Sepp.
“Gilching is first mentioned as Kiltoahinga in a document from 804 AD.
The funniest film of the year shows how it got to this point,” the filmmakers wrote in the announcement for the official screenings.
“To laugh, we go into the basement and the certificate and the true background are on the first floor of the Wersonhaus,” Annette Reindel wrote – a reference to the demonstration in the basement of the Wersonhaus and the museum on the first floor, because of course they should Film screenings also attract people to the museum, which has been enjoying growing popularity since the 2023 symposium on kiltis.
The film also features an interview with an archaeologist and a bit of advertising.
And the well-known Kilti song plays in the credits.
The photo on the film poster shows four people who probably look familiar to many people from Gilching: Jan Haas from the municipal works as Giltico Giltioahinga, the educator Moni Grad as his wife Gertrude, Jakob Grübler as Ronaldus from Saxony and Jakob Vezetou as Sepp, the Roman.
The film screenings begin on Sunday, March 3rd, at 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., and on Friday, March 8th, “Guiching – The Film” can be seen at 6 and 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free, donations are greatly appreciated.
The museum is open to visitors during and between screening times.