Die erste Polka (1979)
1h 36m
Running Time
February 28, 1979Release Date
Die erste Polka (1979)
1h 36m
Running Time
February 28, 1979Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Maria Schell
Valeska Piontek
Ernst Stankovski
Anwalt Wondrak
Claus Theo Gärtner
Feldwebel Metzmacher
Erland Josephson
Leo Maria Piontek
Eva Maria Bauer
Tante Lucie
Guido Wieland
Montag
Helmut Krapp
Writer / Producer
Horst Bienek
Novel
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The First Polka (German: Die erste Polka) is a 1979 West German drama film directed by Klaus Emmerich. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. It is an adaptation of The First Polka: A Novel by Horst Bienek.