Free Land (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Milo Harbich |
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Cinematography | Otto Baecker |
Edited by | Margarete Steinborn |
Music by | Werner Eisbrenner |
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Distributed by | Sovexport-Film |
Release date | 18 October 1946 |
Running time | 94 minutes |
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Language | German |
Free Land (German: Freies Land) is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities.[1] It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release.[2]
Cast
- Ursula Voß as Frau Jeruscheit
- Fritz Wagner as Neubauer Jeruscheit
- Herbert Wilk as Bürgermeister Siebold
- Hans Sternberg as Altbauer Strunk
- Aribert Grimmer as Altbauer Melzig
- Peter Marx as Altbauer Schulzke
- Oskar Höcker as Neubauer Kubinski
- Elfie Dugal as Küchenmädchen
- Kurt Mikulski as Siedler
- Karl Platen
- Hans Ulrich
- Albert Arid
References
Bibliography
- Feinstein, Joshua. The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949–1989. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- Noack, Frank. Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.