Children of the Mountains

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Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager housekeeping money. Some people ask themselves why she has married that poor devil since she could have married into money. But she stays to the keen wood carver. He works out fantastic objects of tree roots, but villagers jeer at him. The family dreams to get a cow of their own to be more independent. One day Josef scrapes together all savings and goes to the cattle market. Due to lack of money, a clever farmer palms a skinny, sick cow off on him. The children Hansli and his friend Ludmila take the cow to their heart. Ludmila even lends her name to the animal. Some time later Josef falls from a mountain and is unable to work for a long time. So a decision is made that cow Ludmila which produces no milk has to be slaughtered.

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Production Details

Languages: German

Director: Georg Tressler

Starring Cast: Barbara Rütting, Maximilian Schell, Heinrich Gretler, Max Haufler, Ellen Widmann, Michael Arco

Cast

Barbara Rütting

Marianne Ospel

Maximilian Schell

Josef Ospel

Heinrich Gretler

Pfarrer Polding

Max Haufler

Alois

Ellen Widmann

Frau Reichel - Wirtin

Michael Arco

Tourist

Mathilde Schmitz

Touristin

Emil Hegetschweiler

Alter Melker

Rudolf Strub

Viehhändler

Prinz Constantin von und zu Liechtenstein

Himself

Prinzessin Monica von und zu Liechtenstein

Herself

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