6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Romance • 1993 • 100 min
Madame Bäurin (1993)
Madame Bäurin (1993)
Overview
On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were welcome as generous summer visitors. But now the shortage years of the First World War prevail. And the farmer's wife suspects lazy parasites in the townsfolk. The city family is indeed facing ruin. Especially since the defiant daughter Rosalie has just knocked out a promising money marriage without regard to scandal. The Rosalie is attracted to the Schiermoser heir Franz. His mother already drives the thought of a 'Madame Bäurin' to madness. Everyone experiences a turbulent time of upheaval. The end of the First World War will shake the social fronts as well as the new machine age.
Starring Cast
Julia Stemberger • Francis Fulton-Smith • Hanna Schygulla
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
6.8
Overview
On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were welcome as generous summer visitors. But now the shortage years of the First World War prevail. And the farmer's wife suspects lazy parasites in the townsfolk. The city family is indeed facing ruin. Especially since the defiant daughter Rosalie has just knocked out a promising money marriage without regard to scandal. The Rosalie is attracted to the Schiermoser heir Franz. His mother already drives the thought of a 'Madame Bäurin' to madness. Everyone experiences a turbulent time of upheaval. The end of the First World War will shake the social fronts as well as the new machine age.
Starring Cast
Julia Stemberger • Francis Fulton-Smith • Hanna Schygulla
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: Medium
The film's dominant themes align with progressive values by focusing on a woman's struggle for autonomy and agency within a traditional, patriarchal rural society, thereby critiquing established gender roles.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
Based on the director's typical thematic and casting approaches, 'Madame Bäurin' is assessed to feature traditional casting and a narrative that does not critically portray traditional identities. The film is expected to present a neutral or positive framing of these identities, indicating an absence of explicit DEI characteristics.
Secondary
Christianity: Negative
Confidence: High
The film portrays institutional Catholicism and its conservative adherents as complicit in the oppression and abuse of women in a patriarchal village setting. It critiques how religious authority and tradition are used to enforce rigid social norms and stifle individual freedom, offering no significant counterbalancing positive portrayal of the faith's role in the community.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film "Madame Bäurin" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on other aspects, resulting in no depiction of queer identity or experiences within its storyline.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film does not feature any transsexual characters or themes. The central plot involves a cisgender woman disguising herself as a man for survival, which is distinct from an exploration of gender identity or transsexual experience.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film "Madame Bäurin" (1993) is an adaptation of Lena Christ's novel "Die Bäuerin." There is no indication that any character, established as one gender in the source material, was portrayed as a different gender in this film adaptation.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film "Madame Bäurin" is a German period drama set in rural Bavaria, based on a novel by Lena Christ. All characters are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with the historical and canonical context of the source material, with no instances of established characters being depicted as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.6
7.0
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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