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The title of this Austrian historical drama translates to Holy Heritage. Hermann Erhardt plays a forester who loses his job after accidentally killing a poacher. He spends the balance of the film reinstating himself, with time out for a brace of romantic entanglements. Cristl Eber and Olga von Togni supply the film's feminine interest. The real "stars" of Das Hellige Erbe, however, are the various species of Austrian wildlife that romp across the screen, lovingly photographed by a four-man camera crew. The film was lensed on location in the Burgenland, near the Hungarian border.