Children of the Mountains
1958, German. Directed by Georg Tressler.
Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager housekeeping money. Some people ask themselves why she has married that poor devil since she could have married into money. But she stays to the keen wood carver. He works out fantastic objects of tree roots, but villagers jeer at him. The family dreams to get a cow of their own to be more independent. One day Josef scrapes together all savings and goes to the cattle market. Due to lack of money, a clever farmer palms a skinny, sick cow off on him. The children Hansli and his friend Ludmila take the cow to their heart. Ludmila even lends her name to the animal. Some time later Josef falls from a mountain and is unable to work for a long time. So a decision is made that cow Ludmila which produces no milk has to be slaughtered.
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Georg TresslerDirector
- Barbara RüttingMarianne Ospel
- Maximilian SchellJosef Ospel
- Heinrich GretlerPfarrer Polding
- Max HauflerAlois
- Ellen WidmannFrau Reichel - Wirtin
- Michael ArcoTourist
- Mathilde SchmitzTouristin
- Emil HegetschweilerAlter Melker
- Rudolf StrubViehhändler
- Prinz Constantin von und zu LiechtensteinHimself
- Prinzessin Monica von und zu LiechtensteinHerself
Details
- Released
- 15 October 1958
- Original title
- Kinder der Berge
- Country
- Liechtenstein, Switzerland
- Written by
- Hans D. Bove, Klaus Peter Schulze, Georg Tressler
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Children of the Mountains runs 99 minutes (1h 39m).
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Children of the Mountains isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 October 1958. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Children of the Mountains?
Children of the Mountains (1958) was directed by Georg Tressler and stars Barbara Rütting, Maximilian Schell, Heinrich Gretler.