Maria
OT: María
Einar Heimisson // Iceland, Germany, 1997
Fiction Feature // FF2011
Story
Maria is a young woman from Eastern Germany, who, after her flight from the Red Army to a refugee-camp in Lubeck, is invited to move to Iceland to work on an isolated farm and – unbeknownst to her – possibly marry the farmer. On the trawler crossing the Atlantic, Maria falls in love with Olaf, but loses sight of him when she leaves for the farm where life is very hard and primitive. The farmer approaches Maria, but when he gets too close she flees once more, this time to Reykjavik, where she meets Olaf again.
Director
Einar Heimisson (*1966; †1998) studied history in Freiburg. He worked as filmmaker and writer.Info
María
Fiction Feature
German, Icelandic
Island Deluxe//FF2011
Iceland, Germany
1997
92 min
OV
Einar Heimisson
Einar Heimisson
Barbara Auer, Hinrik Ólafsson, Rudolf Kowalski, Monica Bleibtreu, Arnar Jónsson
Arthur Hofer; Michael Röhrig
Sigurður Sverrir Pálsson
Jean Claude Pierot
Michael S. Buhl, Eddie Daum
BlueScreen Film GmbH