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''The Cherry Queen'' (German: ''Die Kirschenkönigin'') is a 2004 German {{historical|Fiction}} drama {{miniseries}} directed by Rainer Kaufmann and written by Justus Pfaue. It adapts [[SelfAdaptation Pfaue's own novel]] of the same name and stars Johanna Wokalek (''Aimée & Jaguar'', ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''), August Zirner, Marc Hosemann, Jürgen Tarrach, Delphine Sérina, Adele Neuhauser, Richy Müller and Jürgen Vogel.

The story is set in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Ruth Goldfisch is the daughter of a Jewish banker. She marries an impoverished non-Jewish baron, Albert von Roll, in 1913, and turns his dilapidated estate near the town of Bleicherode into a flourishing cherry farm. Albert is mobilized during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and gets injured, and Ruth does everything she can to help him get back into shape, only for him to die by accident. Ruth then loses both of her parents (her mother by accident, her father by suicide).

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''The Cherry Queen'' (German: ''Die Kirschenkönigin'') is a 2004 German {{historical|Fiction}} drama {{miniseries}} directed by Rainer Kaufmann and written by Justus Pfaue. It adapts [[SelfAdaptation Pfaue's own novel]] of the same name and stars Johanna Wokalek (''Aimée & Jaguar'', ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''), Creator/JohannaWokalek, August Zirner, Marc Hosemann, Jürgen Tarrach, Delphine Sérina, Adele Neuhauser, Richy Müller and Jürgen Vogel.

The story is set in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Ruth Goldfisch (Wokalek) is the daughter of a Jewish banker. She marries an impoverished non-Jewish baron, Albert von Roll, in 1913, and turns his dilapidated estate near the town of Bleicherode into a flourishing cherry farm. Albert is mobilized during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and gets injured, and Ruth does everything she can to help him get back into shape, only for him to die by accident. Ruth then loses both of her parents (her mother by accident, her father by suicide).
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* BookBurning: The second episode ends with the infamous May 1933 Nazi book burnings at Bebelplatz in Berlin.

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* BookBurning: The second episode ends with the infamous May 1933 Nazi book burnings at Bebelplatz in Berlin.UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}.

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* BrokenBird: Ruth's life is marred by tragedies, but she keeps going.



* {{Determinator}}: Ruth is determined to stay on the estate in Bleicherode even if it's increasingly perilous for her with the Nazis taking over.

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* {{Determinator}}: Ruth is determined to stay on the estate in Bleicherode even if it's increasingly difficult and perilous for her with after the Nazis taking over.take over the country.


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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Albert dies crushed by a falling tree sometime after World War I, which devastates Ruth.
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* BittersweetEnding: Ruth survives World War II, but not her SecondLove, and Gretchen has perished in a Death Camp.

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* BittersweetEnding: Ruth survives World War II, but not her SecondLove, and Gretchen has perished in a [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Death Camp.Camp]].
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* BittersweetEnding: Ruth survives World War II, but not her SecondLove, and Gretchen perishes in a Death Camp.

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* BittersweetEnding: Ruth survives World War II, but not her SecondLove, and Gretchen perishes has perished in a Death Camp.

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The story is set in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Ruth Goldfish is the daughter of a Jewish banker. She marries an impoverished non-Jewish baron, Albert von Roll, in 1913, and turns his dilapidated estate near the town of Bleicherode into a flourishing cherry farm. Albert is mobilized during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and gets injured, and Ruth does everything she can to help him get back into shape, only for him to die by accident. Ruth then loses both of her parents (her mother by accident, her father by suicide).

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The story is set in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Ruth Goldfish Goldfisch is the daughter of a Jewish banker. She marries an impoverished non-Jewish baron, Albert von Roll, in 1913, and turns his dilapidated estate near the town of Bleicherode into a flourishing cherry farm. Albert is mobilized during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and gets injured, and Ruth does everything she can to help him get back into shape, only for him to die by accident. Ruth then loses both of her parents (her mother by accident, her father by suicide).



* CharacterNarrator: The youngest of the Goldfisch sisters, Käthe, narrates at the beginning.



* DrivenToSuicide: Ruth's father commits suicide sometime after World War I when he gets bankrupted.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Ruth's father Samuel Goldfisch commits suicide sometime after World War I when he gets bankrupted.



* OpeningMonologue: The youngest of the Goldfish sisters, Käthe, narrates at the beginning.

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* OpeningMonologue: The youngest of the Goldfish Goldfisch sisters, Käthe, narrates at the beginning.
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* LivingOutAChildhoodDream: Owning a farm and working on it has been Ruth's dream since her childhood and she gets to live it.
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The story is set in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Ruth Goldfish is the daughter of a Jewish banker. She marries an impoverished non-Jewish baron, Albert von Roll, in 1913, and turns his dilapidated estate near the town of Bleicherode into a flourishing cherry farm. Albert is mobilized during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and gets injured, and Ruth does everything she can to help him get back into shape, only for him to die by accident.

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The story is set in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. Ruth Goldfish is the daughter of a Jewish banker. She marries an impoverished non-Jewish baron, Albert von Roll, in 1913, and turns his dilapidated estate near the town of Bleicherode into a flourishing cherry farm. Albert is mobilized during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and gets injured, and Ruth does everything she can to help him get back into shape, only for him to die by accident.
accident. Ruth then loses both of her parents (her mother by accident, her father by suicide).
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''The Cherry Queen'' (German: ''Die Kirschenkönigin'') is a 2004 German {{historical|Fiction}} drama {{miniseries}} directed by Rainer Kaufmann and written by Justus Pfaue. It adapts [[SelfAdaptation Pfaue's own novel]] of the same name and stars Johanna Wokalek (''Aimée & Jaguar'', ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''), August Zirner, Marc Hosemann, Adele Neuhauser, Richy Müller and Jürgen Vogel.

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''The Cherry Queen'' (German: ''Die Kirschenkönigin'') is a 2004 German {{historical|Fiction}} drama {{miniseries}} directed by Rainer Kaufmann and written by Justus Pfaue. It adapts [[SelfAdaptation Pfaue's own novel]] of the same name and stars Johanna Wokalek (''Aimée & Jaguar'', ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''), August Zirner, Marc Hosemann, Jürgen Tarrach, Delphine Sérina, Adele Neuhauser, Richy Müller Müller and Jürgen Vogel.
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* DayOfTheJackboot: January 1933, obviously enough. Then Brownshirts start appearing in Bleicherode.
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''The Cherry Queen'' (German: ''Die Kirschenkönigin'') is a 2004 German {{historical|Fiction}} drama {{miniseries}} directed by Rainer Kaufmann. It adapts the novel of the same name by Justus Pfaue and stars Johanna Wokalek (''Aimée & Jaguar'', ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''), August Zirner, Marc Hosemann, Adele Neuhauser, Richy Müller and Jürgen Vogel.

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''The Cherry Queen'' (German: ''Die Kirschenkönigin'') is a 2004 German {{historical|Fiction}} drama {{miniseries}} directed by Rainer Kaufmann. Kaufmann and written by Justus Pfaue. It adapts the novel [[SelfAdaptation Pfaue's own novel]] of the same name by Justus Pfaue and stars Johanna Wokalek (''Aimée & Jaguar'', ''Film/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex''), August Zirner, Marc Hosemann, Adele Neuhauser, Richy Müller and Jürgen Vogel.
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* BittersweetEnding: Ruth survives World War II [[spoiler:but not her SecondLove.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: Ruth survives World War II [[spoiler:but II, but not her SecondLove.]]SecondLove, and Gretchen perishes in a Death Camp.

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