Struggle for the Soil (1925)

Directed by

Erich Waschneck

Genre

silent film

Country

Germany

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent film from 1925 about a farmer's struggles with the land and his life. It is based on a classic novel from the 1800s.

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What happens

Struggle for the Soil (German: Kampf um die Scholle) is a 1925 German silent film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Gustav Oberg, Ferdinand von Alten, and Oskar Marion. It is based on the classic novel From My Farming Days by Fritz Reuter. The film's art direction was by Botho Hoefer, Hans Minzloff, and Bernhard Schwidewski. It was shot on location in Lensahn in Holstein. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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