Autumn Milk (1989)

7.9/10 111 min Drama

Overview

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.

Cast

Dana Vávrová

Anna Wimschneider

Werner Stocker

Albert Wimschneider

Claude-Oliver Rudolph

Kreisleiter

Eva Mattes

Fotografin

Renate Grosser

Schwiegermutter

Philipp Moog

Soldat

Klára Lidová

Anna Wimschneider (8 Jahre)

Karel Heřmánek

Vater Traunspurger

Johann Schuler

Soldat, Erntehelfer

Birge Schade

Georg Hackl

Renate Muhri

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