Martha and I

09/01/1990

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1hr 45min

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Drama

STORY

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Marianne Sägebrecht
  • Michel Piccoli
  • Klaus Grünberg
  • Michael Kausch
  • Václav Chalupa

    Director

  • Jiří Weiss

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Canal+
  • Production Générale de Films (PROGEFI)
  • RAI
  • TF1 Films Production
  • Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • Dutch