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The Crazy Smell of Fresh Hay

4.9 92 mins Comedy   1977
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme  
Director(s): Roland Oehme

Release Date: 22 Thu, Sep 1977

Signs and wonders are said to be happening in Trutzlaff, a small village in Mecklenburg. The party secretary of the local LPG, Mattes Mathias, has the "second face", which has been passed down from generation to generation in his family and is first mentioned in the witches' church chronicle in 1681. This special bond with the church lives on to this day. Mattes engages in a constant but creative competition with Pastor Himmelknecht. But it is not only his weather forecasts that come true every day. With his miraculous powers, Mattes tracks down lost things and heals the sick. Mattes' reputation reaches far beyond the village of Trutzlaff to the district town. A letter from the village cobbler has even reached the Vatican. Both here and there, people have pricked up their ears and want to get to the bottom of the matter. ... The only one who keeps a clear head is Mattes. But then there is "The crazy smell of fresh hay"!

Casts of The Crazy Smell of Fresh Hay

Ursula Werner

as Dr. Angelika Unglaube

Peter Reusse

as Mattes

Martin Hellberg

as Pastor Himmelknecht

Jan Tříska

as Romeo Aventuro

Ursula Staack

as Lydia

Roland Knappe

as Paul

Thomas Neumann

as Anton Czybulka

Gertrud Brendler

as Mutter Roloff

Otto Dierichs

as Willem

Thomas Wolff

as Tramp

Wolfgang Sasse

as 1. Jäger

Wolfgang Bachmann

as 2. Jäger

Johannes Nowak

as 3. Jäger

Hans-Joachim Puls

as 4. Jäger

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