The Lake Calls (1933)

Original title

Das Meer ruft

Directed by

Hans Hinrich

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Based on a poem by Henrik Ibsen, the film follows a man trying to navigate hardship during wartime. The story moves the setting from the Napoleonic era to the Baltic during World War One.

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What happens

The Lake Calls (German: Das Meer ruft) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Hans Hinrich and starring Heinrich George, Erika Helmke and Hans Mierendorff. It is based on the poem "Terje Vigen" by Henrik Ibsen. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin and on location on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernö Metzner and Erich Zander. The film shifted the setting from Ibsen's original work which took place in the Napoleonic Wars to the Baltic during the First World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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