"Die Kirschenkönigin" (2004) TV mini-series

Director:

Rainer Kaufmann

Writer:

Justus Pfaue (writer)

Release Date:

5 November 2004 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Family | War

Plot Keywords:

Loss Of Husband | Anti Semitism | WWII | Rise Of Fascism | Suicide

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Johanna Wokalek	...	Ruth von Roll
August Zirner	...	Samuel Goldfisch
Marc Hosemann	...	Albert von Roll
Adele Neuhauser	...	Luise Weidler
Richy Müller	...	Franz Weidler
Jürgen Vogel	...	Kurt Stöcker
Jürgen Tarrach	...	Otto Pfreimel
Clémence Boué	...	Käthe Goldfisch
Carole Richert	...	Tina Lavoisier
Delphine Serina
Heike Warmuth	...	Elisabeth von Roll
Johannes Zirner	...	Siegfried Weidler
Leander Lichti	...	Walter Roth
André Hennicke	...	Kommissar Gambarow
Frank Giering	...	Colonel Stone

Runtime:

Germany:270 min (3 episodes) | Finland:269 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Prague, Czech Republic

As powerful as the Ann Frank Story, and a European epic .

Ruth Goldfish is 18 years of age, beautiful, assertive and determined. A dream is motivating her to leave the sheltered life of a bankers daughter,to live on a farm to raise animals and vegetables. Her chance to do just that arrives at a Ball, when she mets a handsome Officer of a financially troubled farming estate. She marries him with a sizeable "Mitgift" her indomitable energy and her skill to win people for her ideas. It doesn't take her very long to get the estate back in profitable order. she discovers her passion to raise special types of plantation cherries that will become immensely popular. Ruth is such a vibrant and agile person, there is now way, for her to miss out the social boheme. She is drawing artist's intellectuals and celebrities from the berliner salons to the Bleicherode (Harz Mountains) farmlands. Being so busy, it seems she is missing the dangerous clouds of fascism closing in on her. Being a very popular person, seems to protect her from the nazi prosecutors, at least for a while.Being of Jewish heritage after all, this is going to chance. Amazingly she also possess's a talent to create a bubble world around her, with almost no personal enemies. Fascism delayed is by no means fascism neutralized, Her friends and supporters eventually have to hide her. Until the red army arrives, a lot of biographies will be shaken to the score. Ruth is not perturbed by life under communism, she always knows how to create a reality around her , thats works in her favor. This is not a fictional character, this powerhouse of a person really existed, and it is fascinating to witness her biography. I wish we had millions of Ruth's, our planet would be better off. This miniseries deserves a much larger audience, and I believed people will be enchanted by Ruth. By the way, the actors did a superb job. I just can not praise this film enough.