Midsummer Night's Fire (1939)

Johannisfeuer

After many years in Africa, a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride. However, he finds himself drawn to another girl and contemplates running away with her.

Date of release
1939-11-03
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Drama
Director
Arthur Maria Rabenalt

Casting

Interesting facts

Midsummer Night's Fire or St. John's Fire is a 1939 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Anna Dammann, Ernst von Klipstein, and Gertrud Meyen. The film is based on the play Fires of St. John by Hermann Sudermann. The title refers to Saint John's Eve.

Production

Certain scenes judged too "paganistic" by censors of the time in Nazi Germany were cut from the film.

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