Lightning Around Barbara


Lightning Around Barbara is a 1941 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Sybille Schmitz, Attila Hörbiger and Maria Koppenhöfer. It is a heimatfilm with Nazi propaganda overtones, set in the Tyrol region of First [Austrian Republic|Austria] in the year of the Anschluss. It was shot at the Schönbrunn and Sievering Studios in Vienna and on location around Steinach am Brenner. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Heinrich Richter.

Synopsis

In 1938, underground members of the Nazi movement in the Tyrol region face suppression from the Austrian Heimwehr. Martin Stammer and others flee across the border into Nazi Germany for shelter. In his absence his wife is forced to accuse him of murder in order to save her friend in a court trial. Her dilemma is resolved when her husband returns as part of the invading Germany forces.

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