
1935
The Girl from the Marsh Croft (digital quality)
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (Original Title)
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (The Girl from the Marsh Croft) is a romantic melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk (as Detlef Sierck). Based on a Selma Lagerlöf story, it follows Helga (Hansi Knoteck), an unwed mother ostracized by her community, who finds redemption and a second chance at happiness when a farmer, Karsten, hires her.
Additional materials
Audio commentary by film historian Olaf Moller
Audio commentary by Sirk expert David Melville
Admin comments
“Possibly most resonant about The Girl from the Marsh Court is the specificity of its rural and regional milieu: with its linked sausages hanging from the rafters in thick, coiled ropes; its square-cut fields of peat-moss bordering the farm in blocked rows; its shard-and-sharpened steel implements of scythes and shears framing the entranceways; and, otherwise, a (significantly) cooling pot of cream-and-potato soup laying calmly undisturbed at the end of a long bridal banquet table. All are as important to the film’s developing drama as plucking an “unsuitable” girl from a townsquare gathering of hopeful applicants, arriving late to a church service with a woman not one’s affianced, and eventually carriage-riding side-by-side in the happy ending through well-tended lands”. Zekefilm
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