Midsummer Night's Fire
Appearance
Midsummer Night's Fire | |
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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 | |
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.[1] 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
References
- ^ Williams p.150
Bibliography
- Williams, Alan. Film and Nationalism. Rutgers University Press, 2002.