The Burning Soil
- IMDb link: 0012973
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (847 votes)
- Genres: Drama
- Director: F.W. Murnau
- Cast: Werner Krauss, Vladimir Gajdarov, Eugen Klopfer, Eduard von Winterstein and others
- Release date: 24 Apr 1922
- Release year: 1922
- Runtime: 98 minutes
- Country: Germany
- Keywords: love, greed, weather, suicide, money, fire, snow, peasant, morality, class differences
Plot:
When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's unique daughter. But when he discovers that Count's second wife Helga will soon inherit a field that only he knows his underground is full with petroleum, he changes his allegiance... Greed and death.