Land Without Women
{{Short description|1929 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Land Without Women
| image = Land Without Women.jpg
| caption =
| director = Carmine Gallone
| producer = {{ubl|Hermann Fellner|Josef Somlo|Arnold Pressburger}}
| writer = {{ubl|Peter Bolt (novel)|Ladislaus Vajda}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Conrad Veidt|Elga Brink|Clifford McLaglen|Grete Berger}}
| music = Wolfgang Zeller
| editing = Jean Oser
| cinematography = {{ubl|Otto Kanturek|Bruno Timm}}
| studio = Felsom Film
| distributor = Tobis Film (Germany)
| released = {{film date|1929|9|30|df=y}}
| runtime = 118 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Land Without Women ({{langx|de|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 shot at the Staaken and Templehof Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Otto Erdmann. It was made by the small independent production company Felsom Film using the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, the first full-length German-speaking sound film to be released.Hardt p. 127 It was followed a month later by the first all-talking film Atlantik, which had been made in Britain.
Cast
{{cast listing|
- 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
- Robert Colléy as unnamed Ethiopian beggar
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See also
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}
- {{cite book | last = Hardt | first = Ursula | title = From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 1996 | location = Providence | isbn = 978-1-57181-930-7 }}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0020076}}
{{Carmine Gallone}}
Category:Transitional sound drama films
Category:1920s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Carmine Gallone
Category:Films set in Western Australia
Category:Films produced by Arnold Pressburger
Category:Films of the Weimar Republic
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films shot at Staaken Studios
Category:Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Category:Films scored by Wolfgang Zeller
Category:German-language drama films
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