Der fidele Bauer

Old Scheichelroither Matthias has big plans for his son Heini: he doesn't want him to become a farmer like him, but a "student", i.e. something better. However, the junior has other ideas about what social advancement should look like ... Georg Marischka's directorial debut (co-written by his father Hubert and honouring his stepbrother Franz with a supporting role) offers post-war social contradictions in maximum concentration: Old versus young, country versus city, folk versus classical bourgeois art, and to top it all off, a love story between Heini and an American woman ... In the end, of course, there is a reconciliation - although it also becomes clear that nothing will remain as it once was. This fits in well with Marischka's taut and concise direction, in which Hollywood and Sievering intertwine perfectly.