The Burning Soil

(1922)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 25 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1922

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: Germany

Director: F. W. Murnau

Cast: Вернер Краус, Eugen Klöpfer, Владимир Гайдаров, Eduard von Winterstein, Lya De Putti, Stella Arbenina, Alfred Abel, Eugen Rex

Plot

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.