Land Without Women
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Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
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Edited by | Jean Oser |
Music by | Wolfgang Zeller |
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Distributed by | Tobis Film (Germany) |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Land Without Women (German: Das Land ohne Frauen) is a 1929 German drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Conrad Veidt, Elga Brink and Clifford McLaglen. It was based on the novel Die Braut Nr. 68 by . The film is set amongst a community of gold diggers in Western Australia. It was made by the small independent production company Felsom Film as a Part-talkie film, the first German-speaking sound film to be released.[1] It was followed a month later by the first all-taking film Atlantik, which had been made in Britain.
Cast[]
- Conrad Veidt as Dick Ashton
- Elga Brink as Evelyne Bernheim
- Clifford McLaglen as Steve Parker
- Grete Berger as Ashton's mother
- Mathias Wieman as American Physician
- Ernő Verebes as O'Donegan, goldminer in Coolgardie
- Erwin Faber as Jim Sleigh, goldminer
- Carla Bartheel as Mary Dawson
- Boris de Fast as Captain of Hastings
- Kurt Vespermann as Joe Smith, Hastings steward
- Charles Puffy as Dirt-covered man
- Kurt Katch as Goldminer
- Philipp Manning
References[]
- ^ Hardt p. 127
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
- Hardt, Ursula (1996). From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Providence: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-930-7.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1929 films
- German-language films
- German films
- 1929 drama films
- German drama films
- Transitional sound films
- Films directed by Carmine Gallone
- Films set in Western Australia
- Films produced by Arnold Pressburger
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Tobis Film films
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German film stubs