The Burning Soil

A morally dark drama of ambition and betrayal across class lines, where greed and romantic opportunism corrode human bonds and lead toward tragedy.

When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.