The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film)
The Girl from the Marsh Croft is a 1935 German drama film directed by Detlef Sierck and starring Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank and Eduard von Winterstein. It was adapted from the 1908 novel The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Nobel Prize winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It has been described as a "prototype Heimatfilm. It was remade in 1958.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film)
Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his Jewish wife was persecuted by the Nazis.
Sirk in 1955
Poster for the film Written on the Wind
Sirk and actors on the set of All That Heaven Allows (1955). Left to right: Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Sirk, and Agnes Moorehead