Jacob the Last (film)

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Movie
Original title Jacob the Last
Country of production Austria , Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Axel Corti
script Werner Schneyder
production Wolfgang Baecker ,
Werner Swossil
music Peter Zwetkoff
camera Xaver Schwarzenberger
cut Annemarie Reisebauer
occupation

Jacob the Last is an Austro-German television film from 1976 . Directed by Axel Corti based on a script by Werner Schneyder. The film was a joint production by ORF and ZDF . It is the film adaptation of the novel Jacob the Last . A forest farmer's story from our days by the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger from 1887. It was first broadcast on January 6, 1976 on ORF and on May 17, 1976 on ZDF.

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The film shows the main character, the farmer Jakob Steinreuter, who lives in the Styrian community of Altenmoos. The peasants of the village experience the incursion of modern civilization into their secluded, traditional life. More and more people are leaving their homes because strangers buy up the hunts and want to open up the area for tourism. Only the farmer Jakob Steinreuther opposes this progressive development.

In the valley in which Altenmoos is located, the owner of a railway line wants to set up a hunting ground. The farmers living there haven't had much to do with money. One day the farmer Knatschel suddenly found himself in possession of two thousand gulden notes , which he was bragging about in the village. The farmer Jakob Steinreuter experiences these progressive developments very consciously, he leads a hard and meager life with his agriculture. The game population of the hunting societies causes enormous game damage in the cultivated fields of the farmers. However, if Jakob wants to collect the hunting lease in return, he only gets a few cruisers every year for his leased forests. The gamekeeper persecutes him with the intention of harming Jacob. Jacob's younger son was drafted into military service, he deserted, was captured and eventually fell into the turmoil of the First World War . The daughter is now married and is moving away from Altenmoos. Farmer Steinreuter remains alone, he is repeatedly harassed by the woodruff ladislaus and in the end threatened by him on his own property. When the two of them meet, Jakob is the first to shoot, he flees into the mountains and drowns himself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First broadcast of Jakob the Last on imdb.com

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