Movie
Der letzte Postillon vom St. Gotthard
9.0/10
1941
1h 22m
de
Drama
Overview
The title means "The last postillion (stage-coachman) of the St.Gotthard-pass". A company of select people joins 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 tunnel is going to be built. The new fast way would render useless the small transport industry from which local people had made their living. The great mountainous landscape is the background for the conflicts which arise between 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 tunnel engineer, but is also coveted by a local favored by her father.
Director
Edmund Heuberger
Movie Information
Release Date
November 8, 1941
Runtime
1h 22m
Status
Released
Original Language
de
Vote Count
1
