| | Style: Drama
Director: Frank Wisbar
Main Cast: Dorothea Wieck (Elisabeth), Hertha Thiele (Anna), Mathias Wieman (Mathias Testa), Maria Wanck (Margarete), Carl Balhaus (Martin), Willy Kaiser-Heyl (reverend), Roma Bahn (Mary Lane), Dorothea Thieß (Anna's mother), Carl Wery (Anna's father), Karl Platen (doctor), Robert Eckertn (neighbor), Dora Thalmer (Nena), Margarete Kestra (Helena), Sybill Smolova, S. Elfeld (Geistlicher des Bischöflichen Ordinariats), Josè Lepanto (Geistlicher des Bischöflichen Ordinariats)
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| Elisabeth, crippled since many years and living with her sister Margarethe, has turned bitter because she's so lonely and yearns for life. She is told of peasant girl Anna, who supposedly brought her apparently died young brother back to life through deep prayer. Although Anna claims not to be able to perform miracles, her village believes she's a saint and soon every crippled person in the neighborhood want to see her. Elisabeth, now full of hope, asks organ player Mathias Testa, the only person she trusts, if Anna would live with her. Anna, who is unhappy with her imposed role as miracle worker in the village, accepts and moves in with Elisabeth. Soon she longs back to the peasant's life and her friend Martin. Elisabeth's desire for healing turns into hysteria. In fear that Anna could leave her, she suffers a shock, which in effect heals her. Since she believes that Anna has performed another miracle, she prays to Anna and doesn't leave her side anymore. The news of Elisabeth's healing spreads and soon the church gets involved. When the organ player Testa falls ill with tuberculoses, Elisabeth expects another miracle from Anna and asks her to pray at his bed. Reluctantly she obeys but the expected miracle does not happen and Mathias dies. Elisabeth however still has not lost her faith in Anna and to prove this, she kills herself by jumping off a cliff. Anna, finally free, can now begin with her life that she longs for so much. Wieck and Thiele starred together before in the controversial Maedchen in Uniform, in which the lesbian subtext was more obvious and less subconscious. |
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