Die erste Polka

Die erste Polka (1979)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1979-02-28
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Bavaria Film
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Klaus Emmerich

Summary

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.

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  • Maria Schell

    as Valeska Piontek
  • Ernst Stankovski

    as Anwalt Wondrak
  • Claus Theo Gärtner

    as Feldwebel Metzmacher
  • Eva Maria Bauer

    as Tante Lucie
Directing Klaus Emmerich Director
Writing Horst Bienek Novel
Writing Helmut Krapp Writer
Camera Michael Ballhaus Director of Photography
Production Lutz Hengst Executive Producer
Production Helmut Krapp Producer
Sound Edward Aniol Original Music Composer
Editing Hannes Nikel Editor
Art Herbert Strabel Production Design
Art Rolf Zehetbauer Production Design
Costume & Make-Up Barbara Baum Costume Design
Directing An Dorthe Braker Assistant Director
Production Dixie Sensburg Production Manager
Production Winfried Demuss Unit Manager
Production Rolf M. Degener Unit Manager
Sound Günter Blumhagen Sound

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