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The Blacksmith of St. Bartholomae

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The Blacksmith of St. Bartholomae
Directed byMax Michel
Written byHanns Beck-Gaden
Karl Heinz Busse
Hans Prechtl
Produced byHans Engelmann
StarringViktor Staal
Marianne Koch
Annie Rosar
CinematographyKlaus von Rautenfeld
Edited byHerbert Taschner
Music byKarl Bette
Production
company
Kronen-Film
Distributed byDEFIR
Release date
  • 6 April 1955 (1955-04-06)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Blacksmith of St. Bartholomae (German: Der Schmied von St. Bartholomä) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Max Michel and starring Viktor Staal, Marianne Koch and Annie Rosar.[1] [2] It was shot on location at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria and in a makeshift studio nearby. The film's sets were designed by the art director Curt Stallmach. It was part of the postwar boom in heimatfilm that peaked around this year.

Synopsis

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After nine years in a Soviet Prisoner of War camp, a former blacksmith returns to his home village in the Alps but has been left emotionally scarred and bitter from his experiences and struggles to settle back in.

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References

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  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.253
  2. ^ Moeller p.258

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Moeller, Robert G. War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany. University of California Press, 2001.
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