Wassa Schelesnowa (1963)

"Wassa Schelesnowa" is a 1963 Drama movie directed by Egon Monk and starring by Therese Giehse, Josef Dahmen. Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and her family together. Infanticide, forgery, murder, blackmail, adultery, exile, and plain old-fashioned greed are the order of the day as Wassa's colorful clan tries to scheme its way out of the house and into financial independence.