Madame Bäurin (1993)
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Julia Stemberger, Christine Ostermayer, Francis Fulton-Smith, Hanna Schygulla, Franz-Xaver Kroetz, Gundi Ellert, Toni Berger
After Rosalie derails her mother’s plan to marry her to a wealthy assessor, they spend the summer in the countryside with Aunt Agathe.
The story
In Munich during the First World War, Rosalie’s widowed mother, Madame Scheuflein, sees her daughter’s future in marriage to a wealthy assessor. Rosalie brings the proposed match to an end with a scandal, leaving mother and daughter no choice but to spend the summer in the countryside with Aunt Agathe. The arrangement sets up an uneasy contrast: the farming family needs the visitors’ money, but is not pleased by the spoiled and sometimes arrogant city folk. The summer stay brings city and country ways of life into conflict.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Munich, during the First World War: Rosalie’s mother, the widowed Madame Scheuflein, a councillor’s wife, sees her daughter’s future in marriage to a wealthy assessor. Rosalie blows up the marriage-for-money with a scandal. So mother and daughter have no choice but to go to the countryside for a summer holiday with Aunt Agathe. The farming family need their money, but are not exactly thrilled by the spoiled and sometimes arrogant city folk. But Franz, the future heir to the farm, likes Rosalie’s carefree, helpful nature, and they fall in love. Father Schiermoser gives them his blessing, while Rosalie’s mother is beside herself—the city and country ways of life collide.
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