Plot
Mecklenburg, 19th century. For generations, the Brand family of farmers has worked a piece of land as tenants of the baron, who owns almost all of the village's land. The baron himself comes from a family of farmers who became rich through corruption and were ennobled. He is the absolute potentate, no one dares to contradict him, he takes what he wants and stops at nothing in his excesses. At the same time, he is the center of petty bourgeois, bigoted social life. Johann, the stable boy, wants to marry Mariken Brand and asks the baron for a piece of land so that he can build a life of his own. But the lord is harsh, not only refusing him the land, but also increasing the rent. Johann rebels, trying to rouse the farmers in the village from their lethargy—in vain. Only when Mariken dies does the mood change. A peasant uprising breaks out, and Johann kills the baron.
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Cast
Eva Kotthaus
Mariken
Rudolf Krieg
Johann
Willy A. Kleinau
Oll Daniel
Hanns Anselm Perten
Baron
Ursula Burg
Baronin
Hans-Edgar Stecher
Fritz Toppel
Rudolf Klix
Vater Brand
Norbert Christian
Pastor
Siegfried Weiß
Graf Pfeil
Karen Fredersdorf
Gräfin Pfeil
Maria Besendahl
Binderin von Dusendschön
Agnes Kraus
Dame der Gesellschaft
Ellen Plessow
Dame
