Heimat (1938 film)

Heimat

Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Hermann Sudermann (play) Harald Braun Hans Brennert Otto Ernst Hesse
Produced by	Carl Froelich Friedrich Pflughaupt
Starring	Zarah Leander Heinrich George Ruth Hellberg
Cinematography	Franz Weihmayr
Edited by	Gustav Lohse
Music by	Theo Mackeben
Production companies	Tonfilmstudio Carl Froelich UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	June 25, 1938 (1938-06-25) (Germany)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German

Heimat is a 1938 German historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Zarah Leander, Heinrich George and Ruth Hellberg. The film's melodramatic storyline portrays the return of a leading singer to her hometown, where her father wishes her to settle down and marry. It is based on the 1893 play Heimat by Hermann Sudermann.^[1]

It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Walter Haag.

Froelich won the award for best director at the 1938 Venice Film Festival for this film.

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Synopsis

The opera singer Maddalena had been cast out by her family after they learned she was to bear the child of a banker von Keller who had seduced and abandoned her. Her return to her native city has her father warn her to remain away, because she is a threat to her family, and her sister Marie's wedding. However, von Keller threatens the reputation of her family with an underhanded banking scheme. He commits suicide, and Maddalena is reconciled with her family.^[2]

Cast

Zarah Leander as Maddalena Dall'Orto
Heinrich George as Leopold Dall'Orto Schwartze
Ruth Hellberg as Marie
Lina Carstens as Fränze von Klebs
Paul Hörbiger as Franz Heffterdingk
Georg Alexander as Ludwig Prinz von Imlingen
Leo Slezak as Rohrmoser
Hans Nielsen as Max von Wendlowsky
Franz Schafheitlin as Bankdirektor von Keller
Ernst Schiffner

References

^ Reimer p. 109
^ Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p. 78 ISBN 978-0-9627613-1-7

Bibliography

Reimer, Robert C. (2000). Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich. Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-164-5.