The Inheritors

In Upper Austria in the 1920s, on a farm up in the hills, a tyrannical landowner is found dead and all his servants are relieved to be rid of him. But the man had no children, and his will leaves the farm jointly to the seven people who worked for him. This new arrangement, in which nobody is the master and nobody has to obey, quickly produces conflicts of its own, while the other farmers in the valley close ranks against the heirs so that their own labourers do not get ideas. In the ninety five minute Austrian film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois and Lars Rudolph appear. It was completed in 1998 and uses the alpine villages like the landscape of a western.