Tanner

Tanner
Der schwarze Tanner

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Country	Austria Germany Switzerland
Directed by	Xavier Koller
Release Date	December, 1985
Language	Swiss German
Studio	Catpics DRS Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Distributor	Columbus Film

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Kaspar Tanner	Otto Mächtlinger
Agnes Tanner	Renate Steiger
Jakob Tanner	Ernst C. Sigrist
Anna Tanner	Liliana Heimberg
Steiner	Dietmar Schönherr
Stähli	Albert Freuler

Tanner is a 1985 Swiss film drama by Xavier Koller and is based on the story of the same name by Meinrad Inglin. 1941: In the second year of the Second World War, the Federal Council's "Plan Wahlen" comes into force. It is intended to secure the food supply in Switzerland with a nationwide "cultivation battle". Even mountain meadows are converted into farmland. Kaspar Tanner, a farmer in the village of Oberschwand, cannot understand this. The ordinance from Bern seems absurd to him and in no way adapted to the soil conditions. While the other villagers gradually allow themselves to be won over to the new regulations by the state agricultural manager Steiner, he stubbornly sticks to his convictions. He is threatened with punishment and is fined.

The following weapons were used in the film Tanner:

Karabiner 31

Jakob Tanner (Ernst C. Sigrist) and other Swiss soldiers are armed with K31 Rifles.

Karabiner Modell 1931 (K. 31/Kar. 31) - 7.5x55mm Swiss (GP 11)

Jakob's army equipment it is delivered to his family by cable transport. Anna Tanner (Liliana Heimberg) takes the K31 in the next scene.

Jakob and two soldiers are seen with the carbines in the background during the opening titles.

A closer view of the front barrel and sight.

The K31 is carried by Jakob.

Newsreel

A newsreel is shown to the dairy farmers including Kaspar Tanner (Otto Mächtlinger) to convince them to grow potatoes.

A farmer exchanges his scythe for a Karabiner 31.

A Czechoslovakian ČKD-Praga LT-H light tank is seen. Switzerland had acquired one tank before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, then eleven in 1939. In 1941, a further twelve dismantled tanks without weapons and engines were purchased and finally assembled in Switzerland. The tanks procured in 1939 were equipped with a 120 hp six-cylinder petrol engine, and the tanks procured in 1941 with a four-cylinder 125 hp diesel engine from the Swiss company Saurer. All were equipped with the 24 mm Pzw-Kan-38, a predecessor of the 24 mm Tankbüchse 41, and were designated Panzerwagen 39 (Praga).