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Disarmingly intimate, THE FARMER'S WIFE: A David Sutherland Film, is a landmark documentary portrait of three tumultuous years in the life of a Nebraska farm family facing its toughest crisis. Darrel Buschkoetter is chasing his lifelong dream of being a farmer; his wife Juanita is sacrificing her own dreams to keep his dreams alive. But when we meet them, they are on the verge of losing it all--the farm, their self-respect, and their marriage. Their daily struggle forces them to grow as individuals and as a couple, renegotiating traditional roles and in the process discovering a wellspring of courage, ability and faith.
Co-presentation of Frontline
Premiere: Frontline, September 21, 1998 at 9 PM
"Filmmakers like Ken Burns and Bill Moyers talk a lot about 'the American character,' but David Sutherland actually shows it to us in THE FARMER'S WIFE... as good a documentary as has ever been made for television. It is documentary as social conscience and window on the American soul."
- The Baltimore Sun
"THE FARMER'S WIFE could be the most elegantly simple and monumentally elegaic portrait of an American family ever seen on television...[it] comes along at a moment in our history when we need its messages most."
- The Boston Herald
"Intense, heartbreaking and beautifully produced."
- The Associated Press
"A coherent and compelling story worthy of a classic novel."
- New York Daily News
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Joady Award , Film Arts Foundation
[1999]
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Golden Gate Award, Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival
[1999]
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Special Achievement Award of Excellence, National Council on Family Relations
[1999]
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