"The subject remains a taboo. Almost 65 years had to pass before Austria finally overturned the Nazi judgements in 2009 and deserters from the Wehrmacht were vindicated. The film takes us back to 1946/7, the Winter of Starvation in Salzburg. Scarred by traumatic wartime experiences and confronted by social exclusion, four young deserters – a cook, a farmer, an altar boy and a pig keeper - reveal to us the reasons behind their desertion. Successfully walking a tightrope between fiction and documentary, Gabriele Neudecker reveals touching insights into the forgotten victims of National Socialism and their ostracism after the war. (Ludwig Sporrer, Dok-fest Munich) "Beautiful, bewildering and poetical, this is an audacious film unlike anything else you'll see all year, thanks to stylish direction, a wilfully strange script and a glorious central performance from the four young actors." (The Guardian co.uk) "In an unconventional twist, Glorious Deserter is written almost entirely in direct address to the audience, and shot like a contemporary documentary, each of the characters have their part of the film, and although their narrative is fluid you can't help but feel as if there's someone just behind the camera, asking questions. If there were, that "someone" would be Gabriele Neudecker: producer, writer, director and editor of Glorious Deserter, a veteran of three short films taking her first step into the world of features – and finding she can stand."(Orestes Kouzof, Raindance Film Festival)
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