Bitter harvest
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bitter harvest |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Agnieszka Holland |
| script |
Paul Hengge Agnieszka Holland |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Jörg Strasbourg |
| camera | Josef Ort-Šnep |
| cut | Barbara Kunze |
| occupation | |
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Bitter Harvest is a German feature film by Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland from 1985. It was based on a novel by Hermann H. Field and Stanisław Mierzeński .
action
The film begins in the winter of 1942/1943. The German Wehrmacht occupied almost all of Europe. The Jewish medical student Rosa Eckart escapes from a freight train in Upper Silesia that was supposed to take her to a concentration camp . As she flees, she loses sight of her husband and son. At first she hides in a forest. Then she meets the Polish farmer Leon. Leon is an older man and a bachelor. He decides to hide the pretty young woman. First he nurses the feverish woman back to health out of pity. Leon is an arch-Catholic man who actually wanted to become a priest. But only celibacy remained from this wish. He suffers from his loneliness and has become a strange man for his neighborhood. Rosa quickly becomes his only hope of escaping this lonely life. Leon forces Rosa to become his lover. Rosa finds herself exposed to this relationship. Your only alternative is certain death. At the beginning she still thinks about fleeing. But one day finally turns into weeks and months, which she spends in a safe hiding place, but in a strange relationship. While Rosa longs for freedom, Leon dreams of a wedding. At the same time, however, he also fears that the hiding place will be exposed and that he will lose the beloved Rosa. He's looking for a new hiding place for her. When he finds this, Rosa thinks that Leon has betrayed her to the Germans and takes her own life.
Reviews
“An intensive psychological study of political opportunism in conflict with private sentiment. Director Agnieszka Holland puts the two excellent leading actors in the limelight with confidence and sensitivity. "
Awards
At the 1985 Montreal International Film Festival , Armin Mueller-Stahl was recognized as the festival's best actor for his performance. The film was also nominated for an Oscar in 1986 for Best Foreign Language Film .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Bitter harvest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bitter harvest at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bitter Harvest. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2017 .