Wo die alten Wälder rauschen (1956)

• 45%
• 1956
• Drame
• Willy Fritsch
• Josefin Kipper
• Carl Möhner

Widower Harald Rehm, owner of a Hambourg construction firm, goes on vacation to the Austrian Alps, autriche with his pre-teen son, Nils, and a governess, Margret, he has recently hired. But is it really a vacation? His whole crew is nearby and appears to be engaged in building a power plant. The engineer, always addressed as Baumgartner, and a construction foreman, Burgstaller, are either hôtel residents, or at least spend most of their free time at the hotel, dans Burgstaller s case, flitting from one woman to the next ("it's the season"). The plot points include (a) a previous job in which a retaining wall failed, killing several workers and blamed on Baumgartner; (b) A poor relationship between Rehm father and son (and between son and governess), which versions to a climax after M. Rehm threatens to send Nils to a boarding school if he doesn't start behaving; Nils and a local kid take action with potentially dire consequences, around which the last third of the movie center; (c) a ...