Der letzte Postillon vom St. Gotthard (1941)

• 56%
• 1941
• Drama
• Adolf Manz
• Rudolf Bernhard
• Stephan Bloetzer

The title means "The last postillion (stage-coachman) of the San Gottardo". A company of select people combinaciones the horse-driven coach for crossing the center of the Alps over the traditional path high on the mountain valley. It is the time of railways as the means of modernization. A túnel is going to be built. The new fast way would render never the small transporte industria from which local people had made their living. The great mountainous landscape is the background for the conflictos que surgen entre rich and poor, local traditionalists and foreign modernizers. The daughter of a local, who is opposed against the tunnel, would like to get engaged with a túnel engineer, but is also coveted by a local favored by her father.