Die goldene Stadt
Directed by:
Veit HarlanCinematography:
Bruno MondiComposer:
Hans-Otto BorgmannCast:
Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Klöpfer, Paul Klinger, Annie Rosar, Dagny Servaes, Kurt Meisel, Rudolf Prack, Hans Hermann Schaufuss, Ernst Legal, Jaromír Krejčí (more)Plots(1)
Social drama The Golden City was made in the spirit of German Blood & Soil ideology, celebrating the inseparable bond of country people to their land. The heroine, Anna, breaks this tie and flees for the exciting city life of Prague. Nothing good awaits her there, and she doesn't find support back at home, either. Rejected by everybody, she commits suicide in the swamps of the Bohemian Forest. (Summer Film School)
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The Golden City is an interesting film case. There are many ways of looking at this film. The story is a straightforward idyll about a naive Viennese girl (Kristina Söderbaum) who dreams of Prague as a fairy-tale city and weeps over her fate because she is soon to have a child out of wedlock... Harlan himself would have forgiven her and changed the tone of the book, but Goebbels punished her for carrying a Czech child under her heart. What is fascinating is how Harlan works with those classic Prague motifs, and people go to the National Theater to see The Bartered Bride. However, the tone is different than in contemporary Czech films.
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