Film
The Burning Soil
1922Directed by F. W. Murnau
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
About The Burning Soil
- Drama
Synopsis
When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.
- Director
- F. W. Murnau
- Writers
- Willy Haas
- Arthur Rosen
- Thea von Harbou
- Original title
- Der brennende Acker
