The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life

  • October 2014
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Georg Riha,

    Starring

    Peter Simonischek,

    Howard Nightingall,

    A Kellergasse – the cellar lane – is one of the distinguishing cultural and physical features of the winegrowing region Niederösterreich – Lower Austria. There are more than a thousand of them. Until recently, wine was not only stored in the Kellergasse, but pressed and fermented there as well. Today, the Kellergassen have less to do with occupation and more with recreation. A documentary by Georg Riha follows a year in the life of this valuable cultural legacy.