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.
Dana Vávrová
as Anna Wimschneider
Werner Stocker
as Albert Wimschneider
Claude-Oliver Rudolph
as Kreisleiter
Eva Mattes
as Fotografin
Ilona Mayer
as Resl
Renate Grosser
as Schwiegermutter
Philipp Moog
as Soldat
Klára Lidová
as Anna Wimschneider (8 Jahre)
Herta Schwarz
as
Julius Mitterer
as Onkel Otto
Marie Bardischewski
as Mutter Traunspurger
Werner Schnitzer
as Fahrer
