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The Inheritors   1998         R, 95 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky   Cast: Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph, Julia Gschnitzer, Elisabeth Orth, Tilo Pruckner   Set in rural, pre-World War II Austria, this story begins with the murder of a farmer who has bequeathed his land to the seven peasants who work on his farm. With Lukas (Simon Schwarz) and his lover, Emmy (Sophie Rois), as organizers, the peasants form a collective farm and thrive. BUT the idea of peasants owning land upsets the whole social order of the feudal society, and the local landowners bully them.