After 50 years of service, the district usher Johann Peter Neusigl is supposed to get awarded a Royal-Bavarian medal of merit. Since government director Steinbeißl has announced that he wants to witness the awarding ceremony in person, district magistrate Kranzeder decided to splash out. He organises, with his wife Amalie, a banquet in their parlour, although both of them rather begrudge Neusigl the award. But after all, it is necessary to cut a good figure for the dignitaries. As the government director arrives, after a few incidents during his journey, belated, the event, however, has already degenerated into a boozy carousal which culminates in a scuffle.
На фоне исторических событий в Германии прошлого века постепенно расходятся жизненные дорожки двух бывших одноклассников — Ганса Бёкеля и Бруно Тиша. Их ребяческая выходка плохо заканчивается для Ганса, а хитрому Бруно удается избежать наказания. Десять лет спустя Бруно — молодой, но уже успешный брокер, а Гансу приходится подрабатывать продажей газет, чтобы как-то свести концы с концами. В1933 году Бруно щеголяет в нацистской форме и наслаждается жизнью, а Ганс остается без работы и средств к существованию. После войны пути бывших друзей пересекаются снова.
The young farmer Andrä has fallen madly in love with the maid Maria. But she marries the son of the mayor. When Andrä meets the newlywed in the mountains and the latter falls into the depths after an argument, a murder charge is brought - but no one but Andrä knows the truth
Xaver Bimshofer is the richest peasant in the village; and therefore, his only daughter Lenerl should marry a guy, who is diligent enough to keep the exemplary farm running. But Bimshofer doesn’t know, that Lenerl has long been a couple with the servant Sepp. So he suspects that every young man in the village wants to conquer his poor, innocent daughter. So that Lenerl really resists all these attempts, he gets a stone statue from Thomas Kammerlehner’s barn, “The Chaste Kunigunde”, which is supposed to protect the girl’s chastity and to protect her from sin by its positive energy.
