Free Land (film)

Free Land
Film poster
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
Distributed by Sovexport-Film
Release date
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] It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release.[2]

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

  1. Feinstein p.27
  2. Noack p.256

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.
  • Noack, Frank. Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.


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