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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. 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
- Hans Beerhenke: Kaspar
- Käte Jaenicke: Anna
- Isa Haller: Magda
- Margit Carstensen: Eugenia
- Kurt Raab: Maslanko
- Gunter Berger: Walden
- Wolf Donner: Dan
| Year | 1985 |
| RuntimeMins | 105 |
| RuntimeStr | 1h 45min |
| Plot | 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 cell… |
| Awards | Nominated for 1 Oscar, 2 wins & 3 nominations total |
| Directors | Agnieszka Holland |
| Writers | Paul Hengge, Agnieszka Holland, Hermann H. Field |
| Stars | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak |
| Produced by | Artur Brauner,Peter Hahne,Klaus-Dieter Lehmann,Klaus Riemer |
| Music by | Jörg Straßburger |
| Cinematography by | Jozef Ort-Snep |
| Film Editing by | Barbara Kunze |
| Production Design by | Werner Schwenke |
| Costume Design by | Hannelore Wessel |
| Makeup Department | Nicole Weber,Horst Willim |
| Production Management | Jochen Kather,Günther Russ |
| Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Dorota Paciarelli |
| Art Department | Holger Scholz,Frank Tauchmann |
| Sound Department | Jochen Hergersberg,Gunther Kortwich,Hans-Dieter Schwarz |
| Camera and Electrical Department | Chris Karp |
| Editorial Department | Gaby Kull-Neujahr |
| Additional Crew | Mickey Cottrell |
| Genres | Drama, Romance, War |
| Companies | Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Admiral, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
| Countries | West Germany |
| Languages | German |
| ContentRating | R |
| ImDbRating | 7.1 |
| ImDbRatingVotes | 816 |
| Keywords | female nudity,female topless nudity,sex scene,panties pulled down,love |