
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
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Armin Mueller-Stahl as Leon Wolny

Elisabeth Trissenaar as Rosa Eckart

Wojciech Pszoniak as Cybulkowski

Gerd Baltus as Geistlicher

Käte Jaenicke as Anna

Margit Carstensen as Eugenia

Kurt Raab as Maslanko

Tilly Lauenstein as Frau Kaminska

Hans Beerhenke as Kaspar

Anita Höfer as Pauline

Isa Haller as Magda / Zosia

Klaus Abramowsky as Herr Rubin

Wolf Donner as Walden

Małgorzata Gebel as Frau Rubin

Heidi Joschko as Alte Frau

Andreas Wendland as SS-Mann
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