The Black Forest Girl (1929)

Directed by

Victor Janson

Genre

silent film, romance film

Country

Germany

Elsewhere

IMDb

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.

romanticquaintlightheartedold-fashionedwhimsicalgentleserenenostalgic

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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