The young forester Rudolf is released from a mental hospital after suffering from a mental illness. His widowed mother accompanies the taciturn son to a vicarage where he is supposed to recover. There he meets the pastor's daughter Anna, with whom he immediately falls in love, and the two decide to get married. His mother is critical of the marriage and demands that her son conceal his stay in the "lunatic asylum" from his wife. This secret overshadows the young couple's relationship from the very beginning, and the burden of silence finally makes Rudolf want to take his own life. Only at the last minute is Anna able to save him from this stupidity.
Directed by Wolfgang Hübner
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Cast
Related
Yellow Letters
The Young One
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
The German Lesson
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Fog in August
Most
In the Aisles
Skin
Farming
The Kindness of Strangers
My Neighbor Adolf
Salomé
What Maisie Knew
A Bill of Divorcement
The House on Carroll Street