Land Without Women

Land Without Women
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Produced by	Hermann Fellner Josef Somlo Arnold Pressburger
Written by	Peter Bolt (novel) Ladislaus Vajda
Starring	Conrad Veidt Elga Brink Clifford McLaglen Grete Berger
Music by	Wolfgang Zeller
Cinematography	Otto Kanturek Bruno Timm
Edited by	Jean Oser
Production company	Felsom Film
Distributed by	Tobis Film (Germany)
Release dates	30 September 1929
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Land Without Women (German: Das Land ohne Frauen) is a 1929 German drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Conrad Veidt, Elga Brink and Clifford McLaglen. It was based on the novel Die Braut Nr. 68 by Peter Bolt. The film is set amongst a community of gold diggers in Western Australia. It was made by the small independent production company Felsom Film as a Part-talkie film, the first German-speaking sound film to be released.^[1] It was followed a month later by the first all-taking film Atlantik which had been made in Britain.

Cast

• Conrad Veidt as Dick Ashton
• Elga Brink as Evelyne Bernheim
• Clifford McLaglen as Steve Parker
• Grete Berger as Ashton's mother
• Mathias Wieman as American Physician
• Ernő Verebes as O'Donegan - goldminer in Coolgardie
• Erwin Faber as Jim Sleigh, goldminer
• Carla Bartheel as Mary Dawson
• Boris de Fast as Captain of Hastings
• Kurt Vespermann as Joe Smith, Hastings steward
• Charles Puffy as Dirt-covered man
• Kurt Katch as Goldminer
• Philipp Manning

References

1. Hardt p.127

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

• Land Without Women at the Internet Movie Database