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Martha and I (1990)
Directed by Jiří Weiss
Drama · 1h 45m
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
Marianne Sägebrecht
Michel Piccoli
Klaus Grünberg
Michael Kausch
Václav Chalupa
Ondřej Vetchý
Božidara Turzonovová
Soňa Valentová
Jana Altmannová
Zuzana Kocúriková
Jiří Menzel
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Weiss
- Screenplay
- Jiří Weiss
- Director of Photography
- Viktor Růžička
- Original Music Composer
- Jiří Stivín
Details
- Original title
- Martha et moi
- Release date
- 1990-09-01
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French, Dutch
- Countries
- France, Germany
- Production
- Canal+, Production Générale de Films (PROGEFI), RAI, TF1 Films Production, Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft