Film · Drama, Romance
Bride of the Orient (1989)
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
- Director
- Urs Odermatt
- Writers
- Urs Odermatt, Birgit Flüeler
- Country
- Germany, Switzerland
- Language
- German
- Release date
- March 2, 1989
- Original title
- Gekauftes Glück
Cast
Wolfram BergerWindleter
Werner HerzogBusinger
Helen VitaMatrimonial Agent- Annamirl BierbichlerVreneli
- Arunotai JitreekanThai Woman
Mathias Gnädinger'Hirschen'-Wirt
Günter MeisnerPriest Barmettler
Michael GempartPostal Clerk- Marie-Thérèse MäderJeannine
Huerequeque Enrique BohórquezFaden-Kari- Jan KadlecBoris
- Daniela TallaricoTamara
- Bernard LandauRegistrar
- Josef OdermattCousin
Heidi ZügerGirl from the Village
Errol Morris
