Role of "hero" in La Habanera

I think it is important to the film's overall message that the true hero should be Nagel, while Don Pedro exhibits many of the signs of a hero at the beginning, but this ultimately turns out to be a mistaken impression. At first, Don Pedro's role is to be the charming, reputable bullfighter who is everything Astree should want, and Puerto Rico is the geographical equivalent. However, they both turn out to be merely convincing shams. In order for La Habanera to function as a Heimat film and get its basic message across, both the "paradise" island and its representation in Don Pedro as the "hero" must be discredited. This is why Nagel must, in the end, be the true hero, in contrast with Don Pedro: he represents the Heimat, Sweden, Western culture, etc. - when Astree returns with him, she is in a sense being "rescued" (something a hero does) and going back "where she belongs." While Don Pedro may seem heroic in many ways, especially at first, this is merely to emphasize the crafty nature of alluring, yet ultimately damaging, foreign temptations. Since the film links the concepts of Don Pedro-Puerto Rico-foreign-irrational-disease-tempting-ultimately undesirable-uncivilized etc., and Nagel-Sweden-the homeland-civilization-true happiness-rationality, all of these must together be grouped as superior/inferior to show the "proper" hierarchy and tell the audience how to feel about foreign ideas. Therefore Don Pedro cannot be the true hero of the film without changing its meaning.