Plot
Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the count gets divided amongst the farmers, Anton receives a piece and hopes to be able to work freely. But an old debt and intrigue keep Anton and his family from finding peace. The farmers of the village begin to discover their own power when Annegret, Anton's daughter, leaves. Is a new beginning possible for Anton? This film paints an impressive panorama of the development of a minor village in Mecklenburg from the end of the war to the uprising of 17 June 1953.
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Cast
Raimund Schelcher
Krummer Anton
Erika Dunkelmann
Marthe
Karla Runkehl
Annegret
Erwin Geschonneck
estate inspector Bröker
Harry Hindemith
Kalle Buddenboom
Helga Göring
Christel Sikura
Wilhelm Puchert
Jens Voss
Angelika Hurwicz
Hede
Dieter Perlwitz
Klimm
Hans Finohr
old Sikura
Marga Legal
Elisabeth Bröker
Lotte Loebinger
old Sikura
Kurt Dunkelmann
Wittig
Ekkehard Schall
Ekkehart
Otto Saltzmann
Paderski
Otto Krone
Palm
Erich Franz
man with leather jacket
Hans Klering
Bräuning
Ulrich Thein
agronomist
Gustav Püttjer
postman
Paul R. Henker
pastor Popp
Horst Kube
drunk lad
Ellen Plessow
aunt
Traute Sense
Countess von Holzendorf
Martha Beschort-Diez
Mrs. Wittig
Barbara Berg
Ute Wittig
Maria Wendt
Helene Klimm
Heinz Kögel
Count of Holzendorf
Annelise Matschulat
Mrs. Palm
Hans W. Hamacher
Brother-in-law of Bräuning
Ludwig Sachs
old farmer
Albert Zahn
Karsten
Karl Kendzia
farmer Mallmann
Karl Brenk
farmer Kanne
Hermann Wagemann
Farmer Weigant
Herbert Rüdiger
farmer Einsiedel
Gertrud Brendler
mrs. Paderski
Ditha Cullmann
mrs. Fritsching
Paul Pfingst
Fritsching
Alexander Papendiek
soviet lieutenant
Ursula Weiss
maid
Maria Besendahl
Ollsch Voss
Elfriede Florin
mrs. Heber
Jean Brahn
cook / man on the wheel of fortune
Ursula Mundt
Magd
Jochen Thomas
large farmer
Leonhard Ritter
large farmer
Liska Merbach
A Lady
Werner Senftleben
Voigt
Karl-Heinz Weiss
farmer
Frank Michelis
farmer
Käte Alving
peasant woman
Else Sanden
peasant woman
Peter A. Stiege
commissioner in civilian clothes
Einar List
Annegret's boy
Ursula Blank
refugee woman
Ursula Röschmann
refugee woman
Waltraut Kramm
refugee woman
Grete Carlsohn
refugee woman
Hela Gruel
refugee woman
