Levins Mühle plot
The year 1874. For generations, Jews, Germans, Poles and Gypsies have lived together in a West Prussian village. With the transformation into the Empire in 1871, nationalism started to emerge here as well. The mill owner and the eldest of the Baptist community Johann feels that his national thinking, his faith and especially his business is threatened. Shortly afterwards, he declares that the Jewish miller Levin, his competitor, is the scapegoat. Johann's thinking and hatred of Levin escalates and so one night he opens the floodgates, washing away Levin's watermill...