The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical...

Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon...

Hector's parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but... they never pick...

Gaston grew up on the fringes of society and interacts with other people as little as poss...