Castles and Cottages
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- Runtime
- 203 mins
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the farmers, Anton receives a piece and hopes to be able to work freely. But an old debt and intrigue keep Anton and his family from finding peace. The farmers of the village begin to discover their own power when Annegret, Anton's daughter, leaves. Is a new beginning possible for Anton? This film paints an impressive panorama of the development of a minor village in Mecklenburg from the end of the war to the uprising of 17 June 1953.
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the farmers, Anton receives a piece and hopes to be able to work freely. But an old debt and intrigue keep Anton and his family from finding peace. The farmers of the village begin to discover their own power when Annegret, Anton's daughter, leaves. Is a new beginning possible for Anton? This film paints an impressive panorama of the development of a minor village in Mecklenburg from the end of the war to the uprising of 17 June 1953.
Cast
- Raimund Schelcher
- Erika Dunkelmann
- Karla Runkehl
- Erwin Geschonneck
- Harry Hindemith
- Helga Göring
- Wilhelm Puchert
- Angelika Hurwicz
- Dieter Perlwitz
- Hans Finohr
- Marga Legal
- Lotte Loebinger
- Kurt Dunkelmann
- Ekkehard Schall
- Otto Saltzmann
- Otto Krone
- Erich Franz
- Hans Klering
- Ulrich Thein
- Gustav Püttjer
- Paul R. Henker
- Horst Kube
- Ellen Plessow
- Traute Sense
- Martha Beschort-Diez
- Barbara Berg
- Maria Wendt
- Heinz Kögel
- Annelise Matschulat
- Hans W. Hamacher
- Ludwig Sachs
- Albert Zahn
- Karl Kendzia
- Karl Brenk
- Hermann Wagemann
- Herbert Rüdiger
- Gertrud Brendler
- Ditha Cullmann
- Paul Pfingst
- Alexander Papendiek
- Ursula Weiss
- Maria Besendahl
- Elfriede Florin
- Jean Brahn
- Ursula Mundt
- Jochen Thomas
- Leonhard Ritter
- Liska Merbach
- Werner Senftleben
- Karl-Heinz Weiss
- Frank Michelis
- Käte Alving
- Else Sanden
- Peter A. Stiege
- Einar List
- Ursula Blank
- Ursula Röschmann
- Waltraut Kramm
- Grete Carlsohn
- Hela Gruel
Director
- Kurt Maetzig
