Die erste Polka (1979)

ALL 02/28/1979 (de) Drama 96 Min
  • Release
    02/28/1979
  • Production
    Bavaria Film, Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft, WDR
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Die erste Polka
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth, but nonetheless keeps secret the presence on family land of a Jew who is hiding from the authorities. When the son inadvertently kills a soldier to prevent his sister from being raped, he runs away after borrowing money from the Jewish man. When soldiers come to the family's door looking for the missing soldier who had been billeted there, the Jewish man commits suicide. In another episode, one of the family's daughters marries a German soldier in a ceremony presided over by a Polish priest.

  1. Klaus Emmerich

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hannes Nikel

    Editor

  4. Helmut Krapp

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Maria Schell

    Valeska Piontek

  2. Ernst Stankovski

    Anwalt Wondrak

  3. Claus Theo Gärtner

    Feldwebel Metzmacher

  4. Eva Maria Bauer

    Tante Lucie

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 4 , Crews : 16

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Die erste Polka (1979) 96 Min

ALL 02/28/1979 (de)
Drama
  • Release 02/28/1979
  • Production
    Bavaria Film, Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft, WDR
  • Original title Die erste Polka
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth, but nonetheless keeps secret the presence on family land of a Jew who is hiding from the authorities. When the son inadvertently kills a soldier to prevent his sister from being raped, he runs away after borrowing money from the Jewish man. When soldiers come to the family's door looking for the missing soldier who had been billeted there, the Jewish man commits suicide. In another episode, one of the family's daughters marries a German soldier in a ceremony presided over by a Polish priest.

  1. Klaus Emmerich

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hannes Nikel

    Editor

  4. Helmut Krapp

    Producer