Angry Harvest
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Directed by | Agnieszka Holland |
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Cinematography | Jozef Ort-Snep |
Edited by | Barbara Kunze |
Music by | Jörg Straßburger |
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Distributed by | Concorde Filmverleih |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Angry Harvest (German: Bittere Ernte) is a 1985 West German film directed by Agnieszka Holland. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1] It is based on a novel written by Hermann Field and Stanislaw Mierzenski while they were imprisoned by the Polish government in the early 1950s. (The circumstances under which the novel were written are documented in Field's autobiographical story, "Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family".)
It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.
Plot[]
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In the winter of 1942–43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy.
Cast[]
- Armin Mueller-Stahl: Leon Wolny
- Elisabeth Trissenaar: Rosa Eckart
- Wojciech Pszoniak: Cybulowski
- Gerd Baltus: Geistlicher
- Anita Höfer: Pauline
- : Kaspar
- Käte Jaenicke: Anna
- : Magda
- Margit Carstensen: Eugenia
- Kurt Raab: Maslanko
- : Walden
- : Dan
See also[]
- List of submissions to the 58th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References[]
- ^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
External links[]
- 1985 films
- German-language films
- 1985 drama films
- German drama films
- West German films
- Films directed by Agnieszka Holland
- Holocaust films
- Films set in Poland
- Films based on Polish novels
- Films shot at Spandau Studios
- 1980s German film stubs