Autumn Milk

Autumn Milk

111 mins | Drama | Jan. 19, 1989

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.

Autumn Milk

111 mins | Drama | Jan. 19, 1989

Autumn Milk
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers ZDF, Perathon Film-und Fernsehproduktions
Original title Herbstmilch
Directors Joseph Vilsmaier
Writers Anna Wimschneider, Peter Steinbach

Cast

Dana Vávrová

as Anna Wimschneider

Werner Stocker

as Albert Wimschneider

Claude-Oliver Rudolph

as Kreisleiter

Eva Mattes

as Fotografin

Ilona Mayer

as Resl

Renate Grosser

as Schwiegermutter

Philipp Moog

as Soldat

Klára Lidová

as Anna Wimschneider (8 Jahre)

Julius Mitterer

as Onkel Otto

Marie Bardischewski

as Mutter Traunspurger

Werner Schnitzer

as Fahrer

Karel Heřmánek

as Vater Traunspurger

Hans Schuler

as Soldat, Erntehelfer

Albert Wimschneider

as Onkel Albert

Anna Wimschneider

as herself