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The Burning Soil

6.3 98 mins Drama   1922
Deulig Film   Goron Film  
Director(s): F. W. Murnau

Release Date: 03 Fri, Mar 1922

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.

Casts of The Burning Soil

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

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