The Burning Soil

The Burning Soil
  • 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.
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