My Europe - A Village. 70 Years of Festival of Knowledge

The "village of thinkers" in the Tyrolean mountains has shaped science, culture and politics for generations with its liberal ideas of Europe. Personal stories from four generations show: Even today, it opens the view beyond the limitations of narrow thinking. It all began in 1945: After liberation from Nazi rule, intellectuals needed new crystallization points for their ideas on a peaceful Europe. Aware of this, Otto Molden and Simon Moser organized the first "International University Weeks" in the mountain village of Alpbach with 80 students, which were given the name "European Forum Alpbach" in 1949. The film shows these developments in exciting episodes in which prominent people from science and politics, as well as locals, tell how Alpbach influenced the course of their lives. The recollections of personalities such as Fritz Molden, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Hannes Androsch, Karl Schwarzenberg, Erhard Busek and many others form a multifaceted overall picture of intellectual development. Milana Sredojevic, a young intellectual from Serbia sums up: "The founding idea 70 years ago was to build bridges and reunite Europe after the Second World War. The Forum still has this task today - for the Balkan region, for example."