Ferryman Maria

After taking over the operation of a village ferry line run by her late father, a young woman risks her own life to make certain a wounded man makes it across the river and escapes his pursuer...Death. Sybille Schmitz, Aribert Mog, and Peter Voss star in this haunting allegorical tale from director/co-writer Frank Wisbar (who remade it in the U.S. as 1946's "Strangler of the Swamp"). AKA: "Death and the Maiden." 76 min. Standard; Soundtrack: German; Subtitles: English. In German with English subtitles.