The Black Forest Girl (1929 film)

The Black Forest Girl
Directed by	Victor Janson
Written by	Max Jungk Walter Reisch
Produced by	Gustav Schwab
Starring	Liane Haid Fred Louis Lerch Walter Janssen Georg Alexander
Cinematography	Eduard Hoesch Edgar S. Ziesemer
Production company	Merkur-Film
Distributed by	Deutsche First National Pictures
Release date	24 October 1929 (1929-10-24)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The Black Forest Girl (German: Schwarzwaldmädel) is a 1929 German silent romance film directed by Victor Janson and starring Liane Haid, Fred Louis Lerch and Walter Janssen.

It was distributed by the German branch of the American company First National Pictures. The film's art direction was by Heinz Fenchel and Jacek Rotmil. The film is based on the 1917 operetta of the same title, composed by Leon Jessel with a libretto by August Neidhart. It is set in the Black Forest region of Germany in the 1840s.

Cast

• Liane Haid as Hanni
• Fred Louis Lerch as Paul Lubin
• Walter Janssen as Domkapellmeister Römer
• Georg Alexander as Flips
• Olga Limburg as Freifrau von Steintal
• Mildred Wayne as Nina Field
• Valy Arnheim as Severin
• Hans Sternberg as Bürgermeister
• Hella Thornegg

Bibliography

• Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.

External links

• The Black Forest Girl at IMDb