Autumn milk (film)

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Movie
Original title Autumn milk
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1989
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Joseph Vilsmaier
script Peter Steinbach
production Joseph Vilsmaier
music Norbert Jürgen Schneider
camera Joseph Vilsmaier
cut Ingrid Broszat
occupation

Herbstmilch is the 1988 film adaptation of the 1985 autobiography Herbstmilch - Memoirs of a Peasant Woman by Anna Wimschneider (1919–1993), directed by Joseph Vilsmaier . The main roles were played by Dana Vávrová and Werner Stocker . It hit theaters on January 19, 1989.

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Lower Bavaria 1927: Eight-year-old Anna Traunspurger's childhood ends with the death of her mother. From now on she has to run the household for the nine-member farming family. So they expect hard physical work, hardship and hardship in what was then still an extremely tough country life.

Nine years later, Anna met the dashing young farmer Albert Wimschneider. A romance develops between them and in 1939 the two get married. Although Anna cherished her career as a nurse, she now moves to Albert's family farm to lead a life as a farmer. But Anna's embittered and vicious mother-in-law made her hated daughter-in-law's life difficult from the start with harassment and humiliation. Then the war begins and husband Albert is drafted. Years of martyrdom now begin for Anna, as she is now exposed to the constant harassment and humiliation of her mother-in-law on her own and has to take care of her old relatives by marriage and the hard work in the stable and in the fields. She only sees her beloved Albert when he is on leave from the front. In 1941 she gave birth to her first daughter, Carola. But even this does not improve Anna's situation in any way, since Anna and Albert's child is just as undesirable as Anna herself.

Towards the end of the war, the crying Anna is once again exposed to the harassment and insults of her mother-in-law. At this moment Albert, who was sent home from the front because of a wound in the neck, enters the room unnoticed by his mother. Without hesitation, he stands on the side of his wife and orders his mother to pack her things immediately and disappear forever (interview: "sneak", according to the book "retreat to your city apartment"). So the tide finally turns for the better for the young family.

Others

  • With more than two million admissions, the film was one of the great successes of the 1989 cinema year.
  • The well-known melody of the cuckoo waltz is used as the theme (title melody) of the film .
  • With the film, Joseph Vilsmaier made a significant contribution to the genre of the modern homeland film , which is not a kitschy ideal world, but the blunt, sometimes harsh reality.
  • The main actors Werner Stocker and Dana Vávrová were considered the dream couple of German cinema in the late 1980s / early 1990s (they also played together in Rama dama and Rosenemil ). But Stocker's untimely death in May 1993 put an abrupt end to future planned projects with the two of them. In February 2009 Dana Vávrová also died of cancer.
  • The real Anna Wimschneider can be seen at the beginning and at the end of the film as she pushes her bike through the snowy landscape. The real Albert Wimschneider plays his own uncle of the same name in the film.
  • The film was shot on original locations in the Rottal-Inn district and in Serfaus in Tyrol, Austria ; numerous locals acted as extras in the film.
  • The film differs significantly from the original in some ways.
  • Dana Vávrová practiced speaking in the Bavarian dialect for months in order to be able to present the role convincingly.

Reviews

  • The lexicon of international film describes the film as "an unpretentious film adaptation of the memoirs of a farmer's wife, which is coherent in many details" and as a "closely observing, humanly touching contribution to contemporary history".
  • Fritz Göttler: “The best present from Vilsmaier / Vávrová to the audience is 'Herbstmilch', based on the book by Anna Wimschneider. She makes a great romantic couple with the young Werner Stocker - it will not be forgotten how he literally pulls out a kiss for her on a bicycle - Stocker died shortly afterwards after another joint film 'Rama Dama'. "

Awards

In 1989, Dana Vávrová and Werner Stocker received the Bavarian Film Prize (Best Young Actress, Best Young Actor) and the German Film Prize ( best Young Actress , Best Lead Actor) and together the Bavarian Television Prize . The film itself also received the German Film Prize (Best Feature Film) and the Gilde Film Prize in gold.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for autumn milk . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2004 (PDF; test number: 60 829 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ Autumn milk. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ February 8, 2009