Martha and I

1h 45min

Drama

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.

Production Companies

Canal+

Production Générale de Films (PROGEFI)

RAI

TF1 Films Production

Iduna Film Produktiongesellschaft

Release date

1st Sep 1990

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Français, Nederlands