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Angry Harvest (1985)

Angry Harvest poster
Original title
Bittere Ernte
Directed by
Agnieszka Holland
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
12
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish woman escapes a Nazi transport and hides in the home of a German farmer. The farmer takes her in but their relationship grows complicated as dangers and suspicions mount.

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What happens

Angry Harvest (German: Bittere Ernte) is a 1985 West German film directed by Agnieszka Holland, based on a novel written by Hermann Field and Stanislaw Mierzenski while they were imprisoned by the Polish government in the early 1950s. The circumstances surrounding the novel's creation are detailed in Field's autobiographical account, Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family. The film received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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