Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)

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Country: West Germany
Genres: Drama
Release:
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Writers: Horst Budjuhn , Clemens Laar
Language: German
Stars: Eva Bartok , Curd Jürgens , Martin Benrath , Sonja Sutter , Dagmar Altrichter , Josef Sieber , Ralph Lothar , Paul Bildt , Friedrich Domin , Ernst Stankovski
Runtime: 111 min
Awards: 1 win
AKA: Rikas oli elämäni (Finland) , Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline , My Father's Horses , Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
Plot: A story of love for horses and the love for two women. The main part of the film is set in Germany and Ireland in the late 1800s and early 1900s, in the years leading up to WW1 and the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916. The German cavalry officer and gifted horseman Godeysen, falls in love first with the German girl Lena, who must marry another, more suitable, man; and then with the Irishwoman Nicoline who is unhappily married to a man involved with the rebels in Ireland. The story is told as flashback from the hospital room of Godeysen's son a young wounded of a young WW2 veteran in the Germany of the early 1950s. It is read from the diary of his father.
IMDB:tt0046061