📜 Overview:
It is set in a dreary village in the Schwabian-Frankish Forest where the seemingly reserved Lena lives with her tyrant of a husband, Johannes, in a loveless marriage. Johannes is the village's spiritual leader and Lena is his faithful, ever-ready-to-serve wife. Lena's daily life is characterized by grinding monotony, a life narrowly circumscribed by nursing, organ playing and the duties of the marriage bed. The mysterious murder of a village girl suddenly knocks this humdrum existence off its tracks. In the wake of these events Lena discovers the affection and tenderness for which she has always longed in Paul, the village mechanic. This encounter is the start of an emancipation that leads her not to reveal Paul's secret regarding the girl's murder, for fear of losing her newly won piece of happiness. In turn it means she has to remain silent, as she has always done in her many years of marriage. So it is that this love ultimately turns Lena herself into a fallen angel.
🌏 Languages Available:
German
📆 Date Released:
2002-08-08
⌚ Running Time:
94 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
5.8
Beloved Cast
Lena
Susanne-Marie Wrage
Johannes
Klaus Grünberg
Paul
Robert Lohr
Martha
Heidemarie Rohweder
Griesbacher
Manfred Kranich
Huber
Peter Lerchbaumer
Verkäuferin
Eva Löbau
Frau im Laden
Sigrid Skoetz
Chorleiter
Wolfgang Packhäuser
Trauernde
Brit Gdanietz
