Die sechs Kummerbuben

Gottfried (Franz Matter) and Sofie Kummer (Linda Geiser) live in a dilapidated cottage with no electricity and no running water. Day laborer Kummer's pride and joy are his six boys: Hermann (Urs Hofmann), who is usually called Mandu, Hans (Jurg Dreier), Fritz (Beat Schenk), Fred (Heinz Hiltbrunner), Peterli (Uli Hager) and Pauli (Urs Welsch). The family's quiet everyday life is disturbed when garage owner Hannes Luthi (Peter Markus) turns up and demands 350 francs interest on a promissory note. The payment has been outstanding for some time. Luthi wants to see all the money in cash at the end of the month or cancel the debt. Then the Kummers would only be able to sell their beloved Heimetli. So they try to raise the considerable sum by any means necessary. The children eagerly help. And even Benz Scheidegger (Ruedi Walter), who lives in an annex as a subtenant, secretly contributes his mite, worried only that his strict wife Babi (Margrit Rainer) will not notice. However, a visit to his half-brother in Bern only brings new worries. And when a rich stranger turns up who wants to buy the shabby little house as a vacation home, the situation becomes bitterly serious.