Lightning Around Barbara

[1] It is a heimatfilm with Nazi propaganda overtones, set in the Tyrol region of Austria in the year of the Anschluss.

[2] It was shot at the Schönbrunn and Sievering Studios in Vienna and on location around Steinach am Brenner.

[3] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Heinrich Richter.

In 1938, underground members of the Nazi movement in the Tyrol region face suppression from the Austrian Heimwehr.

In his absence his wife is forced to accuse him of murder in order to save her friend in a court trial.