The Germanic pagan deity, The Rainmaker, has fallen asleep, causing widespread drought and poverty. A young couple, Andreas and Maren must trick an old goblin into leading them to the magic garden of The Rainmaker and wake her up.
Production
GDR practical effects: charmingly janky weather magic
Costume
Regentrude's flowing robes scream 'I nap through droughts'
Director
Ursula Schmenger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA Studios produced this as East Germany's answer to Disney fairy tales, smuggling socialist values about collective labor into pagan myth.
Cox Habbema, who plays the Rainmaker, was a major Dutch theater star — her casting was a rare Western import in GDR cinema.
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