The Inheritors (original German title Die Siebtelbauern – "The Seventh-Part Farmers") is a 1998 Austrian-German film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
It stars Simon Schwarz and Sophie Rois and has won numerous awards.
[2][3] In a remote valley in Austria in the early 20th century a curmudgeonly farmer dies.
Without family, he left his farm, livestock and belongings to his farmhands, rather than to the church as expected.
Wealthy local farmers, feeling threatened by this subversive example, try to subvert the farm.