Die Rumplhanni (1981)
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Cast
Monika Baumgartner, Maria Stadler, Karl Obermayr, Enzi Fuchs, Hansi Kraus, Maria Singer, Frithjof Vierock
A maid who sees herself as a farm’s future mistress tries to secure that future as the young farmer she is involved with leaves for war.
The story
Johanna Rumpl, known as Rumplhanni, comes from humble circumstances and works as a maid for the Hauser farmer. She is having an affair with Simmerl, the young farmer. When Simmerl must leave for war in 1914, Hanni tells him she is expecting his child, and he promises to marry her on his return. Already imagining herself as the farm’s future mistress, Hanni tries to obtain a written promise from Simmerl’s father that she will become the farm’s mistress.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Johanna Rumpl, known as Rumplhanni, comes from humble circumstances and works as a maid for the Hauser farmer. She is having an affair with Simmerl, the young farmer. When he has to go off to war in 1914, Hanni lies to him, saying she is expecting his child. Simmerl promises to marry her when he returns. Rumplhanni already sees herself as the future mistress of the farm. Overcome by ambition, Hanni tries to spring a written promise from the Hauser farmer, Simmerl’s father, that she will become the farm’s mistress. At the last moment, he realizes what Hanni is after and throws her off the farm. Hanni then tries her luck in the city. She finds a job as a kitchen assistant at a Munich tavern and makes advances to Ferdl, the son of the well-to-do innkeeping family. But he wants nothing to do with her, so she eventually gives in to the advances of Hans, a one-eyed butcher. When Ferdl is killed in 1915, she and Hans the butcher are able to buy the inn. The film ends with the wedding celebration of the bride and groom.
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