Summary of movie Martha Et Moi (1991)
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Prague, 1934.
The family of fourteen-year-old Emil Kluge is horrified when one day Emils uncle, his mothers brother, Ernst, appears on the doorstep with his new brdie.
For Martha, the doctors wife to be, is his former maid.
She is obese, awkward, badly dressed with a mouth full of bad teeth, and the doctors bourgeois sisters believe personally affronted. Only Emil, who is just discovering happiness in his first love, takes a spontaneous liking to Martha. He accompanies her patiently all around Prague to the hottest fashion shops, to hair-dressers and dentists, and finally succeeds in introducing a still timid thoguh quite presentable new member to his family. But nothing can induce Emils motehr and her sisters to give up their hostile attitude towards Martha. Marthas family is likewise enraged about her marriage to Ernst for they despise Ernst as a Jew who is an intruder in their German family. Despite all adversities, Martha and Ernst are fortuante together. Martha turns into a self-confident girl who finds fulfillment in her marriage to the docotr. Emil, the only person who is pleased about the happiness of the young couple, is a welcome guest in their condo.
Over the years, Martha and Ernst give him all kinds of advice and support, also in matters of the heart. Marthas and Ernsts days of happiness are numbered, however. In 1938 Hitler mobilizes and the situation suddnely becomes threatening for Ernst, the Jew. He is compelled to give up practising and begins to worry about Martha who, as the wife of a Jew, is also endangered. Ernst decides to divorce Martha to portect her. But Martha will not laeve the guy she loves. On the contrary, she desperately tries to find an opportunity for Ernst to emigrate to the United States.
Emil flees to England and only returns to Prague after the war is over.
He seacrhes for Martha and Ernst in vain. Finally, he learns from Martahs family that they had kidnapped her before the outbreak of the war at the instigation of Ernst, who was taken away shortly after.
Martha, who had never forgiven her family for having seperated her from Ernst, had been seen standing on a bridge for many days and nights, watching the tranis in which the Jews were deported. And one day, Martha had also disappeared.
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Martha et moi (1991)
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