Die Siebtelbauern = The inheritors

Overview

In an Austrian farming village during the '30s, narrator Severin watches an old woman, Rosalind, visit the bed of sleeping farmhand Lukas. Rosalind is accused when the owner of the farm is found dead. Local farmers believe his land will be divided among them, since he had no heirs, but his will states that both farm and livestock are left to his peasant workers. When the seven peasants decide not to sell, they join the ranks of the landed gentry. The community's established farmers, led by Danninger, first attack the seven peasants with slander and ridicule and then turn violent

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