| The Merry Farmer | |
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| Directed by | Franz Seitz |
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| Produced by | Klaus Fery |
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| Music by | Leo Fall |
| Production company | Fery-Film |
| Distributed by | UFA |
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| Country | Germany |
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The Merry Farmer (German: Der fidele Bauer) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Carmen Boni, Werner Krauss and S.Z. Sakall. It is based on the 1907 operetta of the same title. A 1951 film adaptation was also made.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.
Cast
In alphabetical order
- Achmed Beh
- Carmen Boni as Spreewälderin
- Hans Brausewetter
- Ivy Close
- Harry Frank
- Werner Krauss as Bauer Mathäus Reuther
- André Nox as Prof. von Grumow
- Leo Peukert
- S.Z. Sakall as Dorfpolizist
- Simone Vaudry
- Peter Voß
- Mathias Wieman as Sohn Stephan Reuther
References
- Bock & Bergfelder p.197
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- The Merry Farmer at IMDb
- "Der fidele Bauer". murnau-stiftung.de (in German). Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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