Sacred Waters (1932)

Original title

An heiligen Wassern

Directed by

Erich Waschneck

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A story set in a rural mountain community, centered on the lives and loves of people living by sacred waters. The film follows characters navigating family duty and personal desire against a backdrop of alpine tradition.

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What happens

Sacred Waters (German: An heiligen Wassern or Stürzende Wasser) is a 1932 German drama film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Karin Hardt, Eduard von Winterstein and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art director Hans Jacoby. It is part of the heimatfilm genre. The film was based on a novel by Jakob Christoph Heer, which was later adapted into a 1960 Swiss film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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