Martha and I
Directed by Jiří Weiss
Plot
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
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Cast
Marianne Sägebrecht
Martha
Michel Piccoli
Ernst
Klaus Grünberg
Berthold
Michael Kausch
Werner
Václav Chalupa
Emil
Ondřej Vetchý
Emil (older)
Božidara Turzonovová
Jana Březinová
Ida Fuchs
Soňa Valentová
Elsa Fuchs
Jana Altmannová
Zuzana Kocúriková
Ilona
Jiří Menzel
Doctor Benda
Vladimír Brabec
Kluge
Diana Mórová
Ida Rapaičová