Der brennende Acker
(The Burning Soil)
AKA [The Earth Burns]
(1922) German
B&W : Six reels / 2651 metres
Directed by F.W. Murnau

Cast: Eugen Klöpfer [Peter Rog], Vladimir Gajdarov [Johannes Rog], Werner Krauss [der alte Rog (the old Rog)], Lya de Putti [Gerda Rudenberg], Stella Arbenina [Helga Rudenberg], Eduard von Winterstein [Graf Rudenberg (Count Rudenberg)], Alfred Abel [Ludwig von Lellewel], Grete Diercks [Maria], Elsa Wagner [Magda], Emilia Unda [alte magd (old maid)], Leonie Taliansky [Gerdas zofe (Gerda’s maid)], Georg John [Großknecht (main farmhand)], Gustav Botz [Professor Butkin], Emilie Kurz, Robert Leffner, Eugen Rex, Hellmuth Bergmann, Leonhard Haskel, Adolf Klein, Albert Patry, Harry Frank, Rolf Prasch, Magnus Stifter, Hans Bernecker, Olga Engl, Unda Faliansky

Goron-Deulig Exklusiv Film production. / Produced by Sascha Goron and Erich Pommer. Associate producers Ludwig Klitzsch and F.W. Murnau. Scenario by Thea von Harbou, Willy Haas and Arthur Rosen. Art direction by Rochus Gliese. Cinematography by Fritz Arno Wagner (first half) and Karl Freund (second half). / Premiere 9 March 1922 at Marmorhaus, Berlin, Germany. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Farmers - Farms

Listing updated: 21 February 2005.

References: Bardèche-History p. 195; Herzog-dePutti pp. 107-108; Lloyd-Seventy p. 34 : Website-IMDb.