The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film)
Appearance
The Girl from the Marsh Croft | |
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Directed by | Douglas Sirk |
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Produced by | Peter Paul Brauer |
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Cinematography | Willy Winterstein |
Edited by | Fritz Stapenhorst |
Music by | Hans-Otto Borgmann |
Production company | |
Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (German: Das Mädchen vom Moorhof) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank and Eduard von Winterstein. It was adapted from the 1908 novel The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf. It has been described as a "prototype Heimatfilm.[1] It was remade in 1958.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Location shooting took place on the Teufelsmoor north of Bremen.
Cast
- Hansi Knoteck as Helga Christmann
- Ellen Frank as Gertrud Gerhart
- Kurt Fischer-Fehling as Karsten Dittmar
- Friedrich Kayßler as Mr. Dittmar
- Eduard von Winterstein as Mr. Gerhart
- Jeanette Bethge as Mrs. Dittmar
- Lina Carstens as Mrs. Christmann
- Franz Stein as Mr. Christmann
- Erwin Klietsch as Peter Nolde
- Theodor Loos as Judge
- Fritz Hoopts as Peat skipper
- Erich Dunskus as Jens Willgraff
- Hans Meyer-Hanno as Foreman
- Carl Jönsson as Marten
- Klaus Pohl as Juryman
- Dorothea Thiess
References
- ^ Bergfelder p. 51
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.