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Roses Bloom on the Moorland (German: Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab) is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Hans H. König and starring Ruth Niehaus, Hermann Schomberg and Armin Dahlen. It is also known in English by the alternative titles Rape on the Moor and Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Heather .
Patrick Dahl. An eerie fog haunts Roses Bloom on the Moorland (1952), foretelling doom for its characters while poetically evoking an exalted cinematic past. Hans H. König’s gothic melodrama is one of the more intriguing films of the Heimatfilm cycle that dominated West Germany after the war until the insurgent New German Cinema foresook ...
Roses Bloom on the Moorland is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Hans H. König and starring Ruth Niehaus, Hermann Schomberg and Armin Dahlen. It is also known in English by the alternative titles Rape on the Moor and Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Heather.
Overview. In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years' war. Now young Dorothee, falling in love with the architect Ludwig, is harassed by an obnoxious, rich farmer Eschmann.
Hans H. König directs an 82 minute drama film starring Hermann Schomberg and Ruth Niehaus, about a young woman in rural Germany being stalked by a man who is increasingly obsessed with her. A film of leftover artifacts from past era and yesteryears, in a positive sense of the term, filming its village setting in an expressionistic way , while ...
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Roses Bloom on the Moorland (German: Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab) is a 1929 German silent historical drama film directed by Kurt Blachy and starring Wolfgang von Schwind, Hertha Guthmar and Betty Astor. [1] During the Napoleonic Wars a German inhabitant is sentenced to death for striking a French soldier who assaulted his wife.
1952. West Germany. German with English subtitles. 35mm. 82 minutes. A gothic synthesis of the heimatfilm and the horror movie ripe for rediscovery, Roses Bloom on the Moorland follows the plight of a young village girl pressured by her family into spurning her childhood love and marrying a wealthy farmer.
