Free Land (film)
| Free Land | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Milo Harbich |
| Written by |
Kurt Hahne (play) Milo Harbich |
| Starring |
Ursula Voß Fritz Wagner Herbert Wilk Hans Sternberg |
| Music by | Werner Eisbrenner |
| Cinematography | Otto Baecker |
| Edited by | Margarete Steinborn |
Production company |
DEFA |
| Distributed by | Sovexport-Film |
Release dates | 18 October 1946 |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country |
Germany (Soviet sector) |
| Language | German |
Free Land (German:Freies Land) is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities.[1]
Cast
- Ursula Voß as Frau Jeruscheit
- Fritz Wagner as Neubauer Jeruscheit
- Herbert Wilk as Bürgermeister Siebold
- Hans Sternberg as Altbauer Strunk
- Aribert Grimmer as Altbauer Melzig
- Peter Marx as Altbauer Schulzke
- Oskar Höcker as Neubauer Kubinski
- Elfie Dugal as Küchenmädchen
- Kurt Mikulski as Siedler
- Karl Platen
- Hans Ulrich
- Albert Arid
References
- ↑ Feinstein p.27
Bibliography
- Feinstein, Joshua. The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
External links
- Free Land at the Internet Movie Database