The Burning Heart (film)
1929 film
- Mady Christians
- Gustav Fröhlich
- Friedrich Kayßler
- Frida Richard
- Giuseppe Becce
- Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
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Länderfilm
Release date
- 16 February 1929 (1929-02-16)
- Silent Version
- German intertitles
- Sound (Synchronized)
- English Intertitles
The Burning Heart or Heart Aflame (German: Das brennende Herz) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Mady Christians, Gustav Fröhlich, and Friedrich Kayßler.[1]
A sound version was prepared by British International Pictures for English speaking audiences. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects and a theme song.
The film was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudolf Bamberger.
Cast
- Mady Christians as Dorothee Claudius
- Gustav Fröhlich as Georg Wittig
- Friedrich Kayßler as Dorothees Vater
- Frida Richard as Pflegemutter Wittig
- Ida Wüst as Isolde Fuchs, Konzertagentin
- Anton Pointner as Direktor des Odeon
- Hanna Waag as Inge Keller
- Anton Edthofer as Baron
- Rosa Valetti
- Lena Malena as Zazu
- Alexandra Schmitt [als; de; fr]
- Hubert von Meyerinck
- Karl Platen
- Elsa Wagner as Schiessbudenbesitzerin
Music
The sound version of the film featured a theme song entitled “Remember Me” by Bruce Sievier (words) and Norton Greenop (music).
References
Bibliography
- Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.
External links
- The Burning Heart at IMDb
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Films directed by Ludwig Berger
- The Mayor of Zalamea (1920)
- The Story of Christine von Herre (1921)
- A Glass of Water (1923)
- The Lost Shoe (1923)
- A Waltz Dream (1925)
- The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
- The Street of Sin (1928)
- The Woman from Moscow (1928)
- Sins of the Fathers (1928)
- The Burning Heart (1929)
- The Vagabond King (1930)
- Playboy of Paris (1930)
- The Little Cafe (1931)
- I by Day, You by Night (1932)
- À moi le jour, à toi la nuit (1932)
- Waltz War (1933)
- Early to Bed (1933)
- Court Waltzes (1933)
- Pygmalion (1937)
- Three Waltzes (1938)
- Ergens in Nederland (1940)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Ballerina (1950)
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