Midsummer Night's Fire

Midsummer Night's Fire
Directed by	Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Screenplay by	Alf Teichs Kurt Heuser
Produced by	Ernst Günter Techow
Starring	Anna Dammann Ernst von Klipstein Gertrud Meyen
Edited by	Alice Ludwig
Music by	Herbert Windt
Production company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	3 November 1939
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Midsummer Night's Fire or St. John's Fire (German:Johannisfeuer) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Anna Dammann, Ernst von Klipstein and Gertrud Meyen. The film is based on the play Fires of St. John by Hermann Sudermann. The title refers to St John's Eve.

The film's art direction was by Karl Böhm and Erich Czerwonski. It was remade in 1954 as Love is Forever.

Cast

• Anna Dammann as Marikke
• Ernst von Klipstein as Georg
• Gertrud Meyen as Trude Vogelreuter
• Hans Brausewetter as Haffke
• Otto Wernicke as Vogelreuter
• Maria Koppenhöfer as Weszkalnene
• Erich Dunskus as Plötz
• Charlott Daudert as Elise
• Jeanette Bethge as Mamsell
• Lilo Bergen
• Erich Ziegel as Magerdick
• Änne Bruck
• Kurt Dreml
• Christine Grossmann
• Herbert Klatt
• Armin Münch
• Hellmuth Passarge
• Heinz Rippert
• Annemarie Schäfer
• Willi Schwarz
• Theodor Vogeler
• Constanze von Eyck
• Karin Mairlechner
• Ruth von Enckevort

Bibliography

• Williams, Alan. Film and Nationalism. Rutgers University Press, 2002.

External links

• Midsummer Night's Fire at IMDb