This underrated movie is quite confidential and was even not easy to spot as a DVD until recently. I could order for some copies back in 2009/2010 in Bourg St Maurice, at the photo shop located Grande Rue.
If you ever plan to visit French / Swiss / Italian Alps, you MUST see this movie before.
It will allow you to understand what was the life in the mountains just a mere 150 years before.
With a few variants, lives of Switzerland, Savoie and Italy people were similar. Savoie was an independent duchy, finally linked to GFrance lately in 1860 after a questionable (and still juridically disputable) polling process. However, the duchy was in dire condition and had little choice but joining a more powerful neighbor after centuries of alternate fights and wedding alliances up to the utmost European level.
Before you enjoy either sharing the basic, frugal roots of local lifestyle visiting the last farms of the Alps (enjoying their excellent food products, not only the most known), or indulge yourself in the utmost luxury that matches or exceeds the best to be found anywhere else, learn from "La Trace" how it was just in 1860... Not so far back. A world apart.
If you ever plan to visit French / Swiss / Italian Alps, you MUST see this movie before.
It will allow you to understand what was the life in the mountains just a mere 150 years before.
With a few variants, lives of Switzerland, Savoie and Italy people were similar. Savoie was an independent duchy, finally linked to GFrance lately in 1860 after a questionable (and still juridically disputable) polling process. However, the duchy was in dire condition and had little choice but joining a more powerful neighbor after centuries of alternate fights and wedding alliances up to the utmost European level.
Before you enjoy either sharing the basic, frugal roots of local lifestyle visiting the last farms of the Alps (enjoying their excellent food products, not only the most known), or indulge yourself in the utmost luxury that matches or exceeds the best to be found anywhere else, learn from "La Trace" how it was just in 1860... Not so far back. A world apart.