Midsummer Night's Fire (1939)

Original title

Johannisfeuer

Directed by

Arthur Maria Rabenalt

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman and her childhood sweetheart reunite years later. Old feelings resurface but a secret from the past threatens their relationship.

romanticmelancholicsombernostalgicvisually lushslow-burnatmosphericdoomed-love

What happens

Midsummer Night's Fire or St. John's Fire (German: Johannisfeuer) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Anna Dammann, Ernst von Klipstein, and Gertrud Meyen. The film is based on the play Fires of St. John by Hermann Sudermann. The title refers to Saint John's Eve. The film's art direction was by Carl Böhm and Erich Czerwonski. Location shooting took place in Prenzlau and around Masuria in East Prussia. It was remade in 1954 as Love is Forever. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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