Underplayed Gems

The Black Forest Girl (1929)

The Black Forest Girl poster
Directed by
Victor Janson
Genre
silent film, romance film
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A romantic story set in the 1840s Black Forest region of Germany. It follows the lives and loves of local people in a rural village.

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What happens

Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl) is a 1929 German silent romance film directed by Victor Janson and starring Liane Haid, Fred Louis Lerch and Walter Janssen. It was distributed by the German branch of the American company First National Pictures. The film's art direction was by Heinz Fenchel and Jacek Rotmil. The film is based on the 1917 operetta of the same title, composed by Leon Jessel with a libretto by August Neidhart. It is set in the Black Forest region of Germany in the 1840s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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