Autumn Milk

Jan 19, 1989

1h 51m

★ 7.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Perathon Film-und Fernsehproduktions

ZDF

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Cast

Anna Wimschneider

Dana Vávrová

Albert Wimschneider

Werner Stocker

Kreisleiter

Claude-Oliver Rudolph

Fotografin

Eva Mattes

Resl

Ilona Mayer

Schwiegermutter

Renate Grosser

Soldat

Philipp Moog

Anna Wimschneider (8 Jahre)

Klára Lidová

Herta Schwarz

Onkel Otto

Julius Mitterer

Mutter Traunspurger

Marie Bardischewski

Fahrer

Werner Schnitzer

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