Free Land (film)

Free Land
Film poster
Directed by	Milo Harbich
Written by	Kurt Hahne (play) Milo Harbich
Starring	Ursula Voß Fritz Wagner Herbert Wilk Hans Sternberg
Cinematography	Otto Baecker
Edited by	Margarete Steinborn
Music by	Werner Eisbrenner
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	Sovexport-Film
Release date	18 October 1946 (1946-10-18)
Running time	94 minutes
Countries	Germany (Soviet sector)
Language	German

Free Land (German: Freies Land) is a 1946 German drama film directed by Milo Harbich and starring Ursula Voß, Fritz Wagner and Herbert Wilk. The film was a work of propaganda made by DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone which later became East Germany. It uses a neorealist style to portray the effects of land reforms brought in by the Soviet authorities.[1] It proved to be very unsuccessful on its release.[2]

Cast

• Ursula Voß as Frau Jeruscheit
• Fritz Wagner as Neubauer Jeruscheit
• Herbert Wilk as Bürgermeister Siebold
• Hans Sternberg as Altbauer Strunk
• Aribert Grimmer as Altbauer Melzig
• Peter Marx as Altbauer Schulzke
• Oskar Höcker as Neubauer Kubinski
• Elfie Dugal as Küchenmädchen
• Kurt Mikulski as Siedler
• Karl Platen
• Hans Ulrich [de]
• Albert Arid

References

1. Feinstein p. 27
2. Noack p. 256

Bibliography

• Feinstein, Joshua. The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949–1989. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Noack, Frank. Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.

External links

• Free Land at IMDb