With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.

• DirectorJoseph Vilsmaier
• Release19 January 1989
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 51m
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  8.0
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  Perathon Film-und Fernsehproduktions, ZDF