The First Polka

The First Polka

Die erste Polka
🎞️ Movie 96 min DE
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1979

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.

Cast

Maria Schell
Maria Schell
Valeska Piontek
Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson
Leo Maria Piontek
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Guido Wieland
Montag
Ernst Stankovski
Ernst Stankovski
Wondrak - Anwalt
Claus Theo Gärtner
Claus Theo Gärtner
Metzmacher - Feldwebel
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René Schell
Josef Piontek
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Marco Kröger
Andreas
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Miriam Geissler
Ulla
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Eva Maria Bauer
Tante Lucie
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Jan Biczycki
Erzpriester Pattas
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Edward Aniol
Composer
Michael Ballhaus
Michael Ballhaus
Cinematographer