The Burning Soil(1922)

🎬98 min
📅1922-03-03
🎭Drama
6.3/10

Overview

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.

Production

Deulig Film, Goron Film

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Cast

Werner Krauss
as Der alte Rog / Old Rog
Eugen Klöpfer
as Peter Rog
Vladimir Gajdarov
as Johannes Rog
Eduard von Winterstein
as Graf Rudenburg / Count Rudenburg
Lya De Putti
as Gerda, Rudenburgs Tochter / Gerda, Rudenburg's daughter
Stella Arbenina
as Helga, Rudenburgs zweite Frau / Helga, Rudenburg's 2nd wife
Alfred Abel
as Ludwig von Lellewel
Eugen Rex
as