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Corinna Schmidt (1951)

Corinna Schmidt poster
Directed by
Arthur Pohl
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A poor young woman falls in love with a country house and the man who owns it. His family plots to stop their engagement.

old-fashionedromanticbittersweetclassicwrygroundedsentimentalslow-paced

What happens

Corinna Schmidt is a 1951 East German drama film directed by Arthur Pohl and starring Trude Hesterberg, Willy Kleinoschegg and Ingrid Rentsch. It is based on the novel Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane. A penniless young woman falls in love with a country house and becomes engaged to the young man who owns it, while his scheming family try to break up the match. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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