In 1986, this remarkable feature film was nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD for Best Foreign Language Film. Directed by Agnieszka HOLLAND, who was also nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD in 1992 for the script for HITLERJUNGE SALOMON, a very intense relationship drama was created.
Somewhere in Upper Silesia towards the end of the Second World War: The Jewish woman Rosa (Elisabeth TRISSENAAR) manages to escape from a train heading to Auschwitz. She is separated from her husband and child. By chance she ends up with the very religious farmer Leon (Armin MUELLER-STAHL), who willingly hides the young woman with him. But this spontaneous willingness to help soon begins to change when the sexually unfulfilled man gets closer to the beautiful Jewish woman...
This very intense and daring chamber play was financed by the successful German producer Artur BRAUNER (1918-2019) with his CCC FILMKUNST and was released in West German cinemas on February 20, 1985. The film clearly lives from the impressive performance of ACADEMY AWARD nominee Armin MUELLER-STAHL (he was nominated in 1997 for his role in SHINE) and the recently deceased Elisabeth TRISSENAAR (1944-2024). Both play with full physical effort and show a frightening mixture of sexual exploitation and existential abandonment. A tough topic that is certainly not intended for the large audience. However, this impressive feature film still deserves a little greater recognition.
Somewhere in Upper Silesia towards the end of the Second World War: The Jewish woman Rosa (Elisabeth TRISSENAAR) manages to escape from a train heading to Auschwitz. She is separated from her husband and child. By chance she ends up with the very religious farmer Leon (Armin MUELLER-STAHL), who willingly hides the young woman with him. But this spontaneous willingness to help soon begins to change when the sexually unfulfilled man gets closer to the beautiful Jewish woman...
This very intense and daring chamber play was financed by the successful German producer Artur BRAUNER (1918-2019) with his CCC FILMKUNST and was released in West German cinemas on February 20, 1985. The film clearly lives from the impressive performance of ACADEMY AWARD nominee Armin MUELLER-STAHL (he was nominated in 1997 for his role in SHINE) and the recently deceased Elisabeth TRISSENAAR (1944-2024). Both play with full physical effort and show a frightening mixture of sexual exploitation and existential abandonment. A tough topic that is certainly not intended for the large audience. However, this impressive feature film still deserves a little greater recognition.