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
Malgorzata Gebel as Frau Rubin
Heidi Joschko as Alte Frau
Andreas Wendland as SS-Mann
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