Autumn Milk(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.

Genre: Drama

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier

Actors: Dana Vávrová, Werner Stocker, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Eva Mattes, Ilona Mayer, Herta Schwarz, Renate Grosser, Julius Mitterer, Albert Wimschneider, Marie Bardischewski

Release date: 1989-01-19

Country of origin: Germany

Length: 1h 51m

Ratings:

• 6.8/10