Das Dorf an der Grenze - Part 1

In 1920, the village on the Austrian-Yugoslavian border is the fictitious Slovenian town of Selitsch, which after World War I is to decide in an internationally controlled vote, the so-called "Carinthian referendum," in favor of territorial annexation to Austria or Yugoslavia. The life of the farmer Hanse illustrates how political border demarcation, disregarding ethnic dependencies, exposes people to the pressure of national emotions. After the vote for Austria, the temporary "Anschluss" to the Greater German Reich and the painful experience of the Second World War, the film ends in 1945 with the appeal of the Slovenian Hanse to the victorious partisans to renounce revenge in favor of a new, common beginning... The fates in the "village on the border" ("Dorf an der Grenze") are for the most part authentic.

"Once, it must be enough with the killing. Always one against the other, and vice versa, and it always goes on."

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