The Black Forest Girl

The Black Forest Girl (1950)

Schwarzwaldmädel

The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the two realize that they are made for each other.

Date of release
1950-09-07
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Romance, Music, Comedy
Director
Hans Deppe

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Baden-Baden and Black Forest

Schwarzwaldmädel is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Paul Hörbiger, Sonja Ziemann, and Rudolf Prack. It is based on the 1917 operetta of the same title by Leon Jessel and August Neidhart. The film was a huge commercial success, both the biggest hit that year and the most popular film since the war. Within two years fourteen million tickets were sold in West Germany, and on the strength of it Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack topped the popularity charts and received Bambi awards.

Production

Schwarzwaldmädel was made at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin while location shooting took place in the Black Forest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon. Shot in Agfacolor, it was the first colour film to be shot in western Germany since the Second World War. An East German production Heart of Stone was also made in colour the same year.

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