The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf. The story of this new, modern cheese dairy, which causes confusion and consternation in a farming village, is also intended to teach about how politics were conducted in those days and how the grand words and little e...
On February 4th 1936, three years after Hitler's rise to power in Germany, a 25 year-old Jewish student, David Frankfurter, shot and killed Wilhelm Gustloff, the leader of the Swiss Branch of the German National-Socialist Party, at his home in the mountain resort of Davos.
Immediately after his act Fankfurter gave himself up to the police and sated that he "felt compelled to ta...
Konrad Steiner (Sigfrit Steiner) has worked all his life, never taking a single vacation. When his wife dies, the old gentleman cremates her and continues working, though he should have retired long ago. His son tries to get him to move in with him, far away from everything familiar to him. When he receives an eviction notice from his landlord, he fights back with the help of a...
