The Perjured Farmer

Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier

With Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Günther Maria Halmer, Suzanne von Borsody, Heikko Deutschmann and Josefina Vilsmaier

The wealthy farmer Karl Bruckner and his fiancée Anna are about to marry when Karl is killed in a car accident. While a world collapses for Anna, Charles' stepbrother Franz takes the opportunity to take possession of the family-owned farm. He lets Charles's will, in which Anna had been considered, disappear and swears a perjury that there was never a probate document. Anna is chased from the yard and leaves the village with her little daughter. Years later, she returns to finally bring the truth to light. Ludwig Anzengruber's famous folk piece as a gripping ...