The Burning Soil

Original title: Der brennende Acker
Duration: 98 min
Release date: 1922-03-03
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When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.

Drama

Der brennende Acker

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