Angry Harvest

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.[1] 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".)

Angry Harvest
Directed byAgnieszka Holland
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJozef Ort-Snep
Edited byBarbara Kunze
Music byJörg Straßburger
Production
company
Distributed byConcorde Filmverleih
Release date
  • 20 February 1985 (1985-02-20)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.

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 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

See also

References
  1. "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
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