Underplayed Gems

The Black Forest Girl (1950)

The Black Forest Girl poster
Original title
Schwarzwaldmädel
Directed by
Hans Deppe
Genre
drama film, comedy film, Heimatfilm, musical film, romance film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
12
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young woman from the Black Forest gets caught up in romantic misunderstandings and festive village traditions. The story follows her as she navigates love and local customs in a small German town.

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What happens

Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Paul Hörbiger, Sonja Ziemann, and Rudolf Prack. It is based on the 1917 operetta of the same title by Leon Jessel and August Neidhart. The film was a huge commercial success, both the biggest hit that year and the most popular film since the war. Within two years fourteen million tickets were sold in West Germany, and on the strength of it Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack topped the popularity charts and received Bambi awards. The film's success revived the popularity of Heimatfilm, which came to dominate the German box office over the coming decade. Incidentally, this production holds fame as being the world's first film to have been projected by the light of the then new Xenon short arc lamps. This set the standard for things to come, and decades later these impressive light sources continue to dominate cinematic projections around the world. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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