Das falsche Gewicht (1971)

Directed by

Bernhard Wicki

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

2h 26m

Rated

16

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A provincial inspector of weights and measures arrives in a poor Galician border village before World War I. He tries to enforce his strict moral standards against the local corruption and schemes.

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What happens

Das falsche Gewicht (False Weights) is a 1971 West German drama film directed by Bernhard Wicki and produced for ZDF before receiving a limited theatrical release in 1973. Adapted from the 1937 novel Weights and Measures by Joseph Roth, it centres on the uncompromising provincial inspector of weights and measures Anselm Eibenschütz (played by Helmut Qualtinger) whose rigid moral code collides with the corruption of an impoverished Galician border village on the eve of the First World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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