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''Angry Harvest'' (german: Bittere Ernte) is a 1985 West German film directed by
Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, ...
. 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
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in
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Plot

In the winter of 1942–43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through
Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
. 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

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Armin Mueller-Stahl Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a retired German film actor, painter and author, who also appeared in numerous English-language films since the 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role i ...
: Leon Wolny * Elisabeth Trissenaar: Rosa Eckart *
Wojciech Pszoniak Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Biography and career Pszoniak was born in Lwów, Nazi occupied Poland, now in Ukraine. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 19 ...
: Cybulowski *
Gerd Baltus Gerd Baltus (29 March 1932 – 13 December 2019) was a German television actor. Baltus was born in Bremen. While doing law studies Baltus became interested in acting. In 1952 he got his first theatre booking in Hamburg, later in Bonn, West Ber ...
: Geistlicher *
Anita Höfer Anita Höfer (born 1944) is a German film and television actress.Cowie & Elley p.150 She has also worked as a voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in the German market. Selected filmography * '' Via Mala'' (1961) * '' Black Gravel'' ...
: Pauline * Hans Beerhenke: Kaspar *
Käte Jaenicke Käte Jaenicke (22 March 1923 – 1 November 2002) was a German theater and film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1954 to 1975. Personal life She was in a relationship with writer Aras Ören, and had a daughter Anja Jaenicke ...
: Anna * Isa Haller: Magda *
Margit Carstensen Margit Carstensen (born 29 February 1940) is a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Theater career Carstensen, the daughter of a physician, was born and rai ...
: Eugenia *
Kurt Raab Kurt Raab (20 July 1941 – 28 June 1988) was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 ...
: Maslanko *
Gunter Berger Gunter or Günter may refer to: * Gunter rig, a type of rig used in sailing, especially in small boats * Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation * Gunter, Texas, city in the United States People Surname * Chris Gunter ...
: Walden *
Wolf Donner The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly un ...
: Dan


See also

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List of submissions to the 58th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 58th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films ...
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List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Germany has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the creation of the award in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length m ...


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* 1985 films 1985 drama films German drama films West German films 1980s German-language films Films directed by Agnieszka Holland Holocaust films Films set in Poland Films based on Polish novels Films shot at Spandau Studios 1980s German films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub