The Burning Soil

The Burning Soil
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Directed byF. W. Murnau
Written byWilly Haas
Thea von Harbou
Arthur Rosen
Produced bySascha Goron
Erich Pommer
StarringEugen Klöpfer
Vladimir Gajdarov
Werner Krauss
Eduard von Winterstein
Georg John
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Karl Freund
Production
company
Deulig Film
Distributed byDeulig-Verleih
Release date
  • 3 March 1922 (1922-03-03)
Running time
110 min. restored version
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent film
German intertitles

The Burning Soil (German: Der brennende Acker) is a 1922 German silent film directed by F.W. Murnau. It was made the same year as Murnau's Nosferatu and released in Germany around the same time. The film follows the struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studio in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rochus Gliese.

The film was considered lost until 1978, when it was discovered to have been owned by an Italian priest who organized screenings in mental hospitals.[1] A restoration of the film was made with the assistance of French director Eric Rohmer.

Plot

“Devil's Field” is a cursed place, that scares the entire population of a small village of Silesia, because an ancestor of the family Rudenburg perished there victim of a mysterious explosion while digging a well in search of a buried treasure. Count von Rudenburg, current title holder, is also searching for the treasure, without result. He lives in his castle with his second wife, Helga, and a daughter from a first marriage, capricious Gerda.

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In the nearby village, an old peasant, Rog, dies leaving two sons, Peter, very attached to the family land, and ambitious Johannes who thinks he is too good to live a peasant's life. He becomes secretary to Count von Rudenburg and starts courting his daughter. One day, he overhears that the Count has found an oilfield under Devil's Field. Shortly after, the Count, who is terminally ill, dictates him his will according to which his daughter Gerda will inherit his entire estate including all properties, manors and castles, while his second wife Helga will only inherit Devil's Field. Johannes then tells Helga she is the one he is in love with. He marries her after the Count's death.

Johannes goes to the city to discuss with a large company the exploitation of the oilfield. He refuses the sum of 25 million marks and convinces them to lend him the money so that he can exploit it himself. Meanwhile, his wife, desperate with his obsession with Devil's Field, sells the cursed land to Peter for twelve thousand marks. Johannes, furious, demands that she cancels the sales. Peter agrees, but the young woman, desperate that Johannes has never loved her, drowns herself in the river.

Gerda, who spitefully had got engaged to Baron von Lellewel is hoping to regain Johannes' love. But he tells her that he never loved either of the women and acted only by ambition. To avenge herself, Gerda sets fire to the rig that was installed on Devil's Field and dies in the ensuing explosion. Finally aware of the misfortunes he has caused, and of the vanity of his ambitions, Johannes returns to the farm where his brother and Maria, a country girl in love with him, had always been waiting for him.[2]

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ IMDB Trivia
  2. ^ Review, synopsis and link to watch the film: "A cinema history". Retrieved 3 July 2015.

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