After a heart attack, landowner Ferdinand Kerekházy summons his son Ferko Kerekházy from abroad, who, to his conservative father's dismay, sends a wagonload of machines ahead to set up an irrigation system and turn the saline, barely productive fields into fertile ones. The old count doesn't want to hear about his son's plans, and wants Ferko to marry Baroness Zólyomi. Since his son refuses, he disowns him. With persistent work, and the support of the mayor and a young engineer from Pest, the irrigation plan is realized. When the old count, who is always dreaming of grandchildren, realises that his son and the mayor's daughter have fallen in love, he reconciles with Ferko and asks her to marry him.
Cast
Gyula Csortos
Kerekházy Ferdinánd
Pál Jávor
Kerekházy Ferenc (Kerek Ferkó)
Árpád Lehotay
Kotzog, polgármester
Lili Berky
Kotzogné
Mária Egry
Mária, Kotzog leánya
Gyula Benkő
Héya mérnök
Ernő Mihályi
Újságíró
Piroska Vaszary
Özvegy
Sándor Tompa
Kocsmáros
Endre C. Turáni
Balázs Ispán
György Solthy
Tanácstag
Jenö Bodnár
Tanácstag
Miklós Pataki
Tanácstag
József Mátray
Tanácstag
Zojka Matyasovszky
Etelka
György Gonda
Újító paraszt
Miklós Konkoly
Titkár
Andor Sárossy
Egy úr a kocsmában
Pál Vessely
Mulató cimbora
Éva Serényi
Barátnő
