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A Berlin manager and his family have used to spend their holidays in a small Austrian village for many years. One day (and that's the non-fictional starting point of the fictional movie), a popular German show-master asks his Austrian candidates which of the Germans they would call "Piefke". It turns out that not all of the Germans are called Piefke, but only those who travel around and behave arrogantly in other countries. Nevertheless, a lot of Germans cancel their holidays in Austria (another non-fictional result of the show, by the way) and complain that nobody should bite the hand feeding him. Amongst those who complain is the Berlin manager. The major of the village, who also runs a hotel and who is related to everybody in the local tourism industry has to apologize and simply blames the "stupid Viennese who do not understand the real value of Germans". But not everybody in the village is a fan of to many tourists - especially the village teacher, who is the brother of the major (!) tries to save the mountains and wants to prohibit an extensive tourism industry. A wonderful satire, showing the differences between two neighbor countries (and you would not believe how big they can be!), the different behavior considered as rude or impolite by the other people, the prejudice and gorges between and how to overcome them.