The Burning Soil

• Rated 6.3 out of 10
• Movie
• 1922
• 1h 38m
• Drama

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.

Director

F. W. Murnau

Starring

Werner Krauss, Eugen Klöpfer, Vladimir Gajdarov, Eduard von Winterstein