ID

FBW002603      Fiction

Country / Year

Germany (FR), 1984-1985

Original Title

Bittere Ernte

Other Title(s)

Bitter Harvest / Angry Harvest / Gorzkie Zniwa

Directed by

Agnieszka Holland

Produced by

CCC-Filmkunst GmbH, Berlin / Admiral Film GmbH, München; in partnership with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Mainz

Staff

Producer: Artur Brauner; Co-producer: Klaus-Dieter Lehmann; Editor: Klaus Riemer; Production manager: Peter Hahne; Location manager: Jochen Kather; Assistant location manager: Günther Russ; Assistent director: Dorota Paciarelli; Continuity: Katarzyna Röck-Skowrow; Script: Paul Hengge, Agnieszka Holland; Based on: Hermann H. Field (gleichn. Roman), Stanislaw Mierzenski (gleichn. Roman); Camera: Josef Ort-Snep; Assistent cameraman: Christian Karp; Special optical effects: Lothar Tropp; Still photograpy: Bernd Michael Köhler; Editing: Barbara Kunze; Assistant editing: Gaby Kull; Sound: Gunther Kortwich; Mixing: Hans-Dieter Schwarz; Assistent sound recording: Jochen Hergersberg; Art direction: Werner Schwenke (Production Design by); Key grip: Robert Scheuer; Props: Holger Scholz (aussen), Frank Tauchmann (innen); Costumes: Hanne-Lore Wessel; Makeup: Horst Willim, Nicole Weber; Music: Jörg Strassburger

Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl (Leon Wolny); Elisabeth Trissenaar (Rosa Eckart); Wojciech Pszoniak (Cybolowski); Gerd Baltus (Geistlicher); Anita Höfer (Pauline); Hans Beerhenke (Kaspar); Käthe Jaenicke (Anna); Isa Haller (Magda / Zosia); Margit Carstensen (Eugenia); Kurt Raab (Maslanka); Gunter Berger (Walden); Wolf Donner (Dan); Klaus Abramowsky (Herr Rubin); Malgorzata Gebel (Tuwa Rubin); Heidi Joschko (Alte Frau); Lutz Henning-Weitlich (Widerstandskämpfer); Tilly Lauenstein (Frau Kaminska); Helmut Bernhofen (Sturmführer); Johannes Mergner (Dans Freund); Andreas Wendland (SS-Mann); Michael Pand (Bursche)

Length

2868 m / 104'50''

Format

35mm (16mm Blow up)/farbe (Eastmancolor)/1:1,37

Dates

- 12 Mar 1984-12 Apr 1984: Shooting period 24 Tage
- 20 Feb 1985: Premiere, Berlin/West (35. Internationale Filmfestspiele, Gloria-Palast)
- 14 Oct 1985: Censor, GFR (FSK)
- 09 Jan 1986: Release date, Berlin/West (Filmbühne Wien, Lupe 1), Frankfurt am Main (Eldorado)
- 08 Mar 1987: First broadcast, ZDF
- 26 Sep 1991: Rerun, TV, Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)

Further Remarks

- Studioaufnahmen: CCC-Studios, Berlin-Spandau

Abstract

Poland, 1943. The rich Polish farmer Leon finds the Jewish woman Rosa, who totally exhausted is fleeing from the Nazis and has collapsed on the ground in the middle of the woods. Leon hides Rosa and nurses her back to health. However, this situation of living together which is forced upon the middle-class woman and the simple farmer results in a catastrophe.

Subject Terms

Holdings

- CCC-Filmkunst GmbH, Berlin; 35mm

Distributor

Concorde Filmverleih GmbH, München (initially)

Materials

- Deutsches Filmmuseum (DFM), Frankfurt am Main: Artur Brauner Archiv; Produktionsakten
- Deutsches Filmmuseum (DFM), Frankfurt am Main: Artur Brauner Archiv; Fotos

Bibliography

- , in: Variety, 13.03.1985
- , in: Filmfaust (Frankfurt am Main), Nr. 49, Oktober/November, 01.10.1985
- , in: Film-Echo/Filmwoche, Nr. 57, 11.10.1985
- , in: Film-Echo/Filmwoche, Nr. 64, 15.11.1985
- , in: Film-Echo/Filmwoche, Nr. 65, 21.11.1985
- [Interview mit Agnieszka Holland], in: Cinéaste, Vol. 15, Nr 1, 1986
- , in: Cinéaste, Vol. 15, Nr 1, 1986
- , in: Film-Echo/Filmwoche, Nr. 3, 17.01.1986
- , in: The Hollywood Reporter, Vol. 291, Nr. 11, 18.03.1986
- Insdorf, Anette: "Agnieszka Holland", in: The Los Angeles Times, 08.04.1987
- Kehr, Dave: "Angry Harvest", in: Chicago Reader, 07.03.1988
- Siclier, Jacques: "Agnieszka Holland", in: Le Monde (Paris), 18.06.1988
- , in: Positif (Paris), Nr. 332, Oktober, 01.10.1988
- Dillmann, Claudia (als: Claudia Dillmann-Kühn): Artur Brauner und die CCC. Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1990
- Horton, Andrew J.: "Rattling The Skeleton In Europe's Closet. Agnieszka Holland's Bittere Ernte", in: Kinoeye, Vol. 0, Nr. 22, 22.02.1999
- Dillmann, Claudia / Loewy, Ronny: Artur Brauner Produzent Producer. München: Goethe Institut, 2002