Die erste Polka 45 years old

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth, but nonetheless keeps secret the presence on family land of a Jew who is hiding from the authorities. When the son inadvertently kills a soldier to prevent his sister from being raped, he runs away after borrowing money from the Jewish man. When soldiers come to the family's door looking for the missing soldier who had been billeted there, the Jewish man commits suicide. In another episode, one of the family's daughters marries a German soldier in a ceremony presided over by a Polish priest.

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Die erste Polka Cast

Name	Character
Maria Schell She was 53, 79 years old when she died	as Valeska Piontek
Ernst Stankovski He was 50, now 95 years old	as Anwalt Wondrak
Claus Theo Gärtner He was 35, now 81 years old	as Feldwebel Metzmacher

Die erste Polka Crew

Name	Department