Herbstmilch

Jan 19 1989 N/A 1h 51m
Drama, War

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.

Plot

This cinematic adaptation of the autobiography of Anna Wimschneider depicts her life's experiences and workaday routines as a woman born on a farm in lower Bavaria, Germany in the 1920s. Anna's mother died young in childbirth and Anna had to take her place and work very hard. On a Nazi rally she meets young Albert, who owns a farm. They realize that they both don't believe into fascism and go to a coffee bar where he starts wooing her. Against her prior decision to leave farm life as soon as possible, she agrees to marry him, hoping that her life will become easier on Albert's farm.

Written by

Willi Segler, Peter F. Steinbach, Anna Wimschneider

Directed by

Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast

Dana Vávrová, Werner Stocker, Claude-Oliver Rudolph

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany

Production Companies

ZDF, Perathon Film-und Fernsehproduktions

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

9 wins & 3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
491
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA