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The Alpine saga - Part 5

Film & Dialog - Klang-Film-Theater

TV series by Peter Turrini and Wilhelm Pevny was filmed between 1976 and 1980 and deals with the problems of the rural population from 1900 to 1945. The two authors were just as concerned with a critical portrayal of social structures in the countryside as they were with depicting the effects of the political crises in the first half of the 20th century on a small village in Upper Austria.

Part 5 - The German Spring
The year 1938: the fate of a farmer's wife is used to illustrate the Nazi takeover in Austria. The “Alpine saga”, according to its co-author Peter Turrini, “has made the biographies of the ‘little people’ fit for court, i.e. television. It has shown farmers, for example, that farming problems don't have to be dealt with on the Shiloh Ranch in Texas, but in their own country.”
 
1938: The Huberhof is in financial difficulties. Maria (Elisabeth Stepanek) goes to Linz as a maid and witnesses her brother Michl being arrested by the Nazis on the night before Hitler's invasion of Austria.

FSK from 12 years
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