Angry Harvest (1985)

- 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.
tensebleakmelancholicslow-burnunsettlingsomberclaustrophobicemotionally heavy
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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