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1922 film

Hannele's Journey to Heaven
GermanHanneles Himmelfahrt
Directed byUrban Gad
Written byGerhart Hauptmann (play)
Willy Rath
Starring
CinematographyKarl Hasselmann
Production
company
Terra Film
Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 10 April 1922 (1922-04-10)
Running time105 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Hannele's Journey to Heaven (German: Hanneles Himmelfahrt) is a 1922 German silent film directed by Urban Gad and starring Margarete Schlegel, Margarete Schön and Hermann Vallentin. The film is based on the play, The Assumption of Hannele by German author Gerhart Hauptmann. It was remade as a sound film in 1934.

Plot

It is set in a small mountain village and tells the story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.

Cast

References

  1. Rentschler, Eric. German Film & Literature. Routledge, 1986. ISBN 0415239753.

External links

Films directed by Urban Gad
1910-1914
1915-1926


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