Zu neuen Ufern (1937)

(To New Shores)

To New Shores (German: Zu neuen Ufern) is a 1937 German drama film directed by Douglas Sirk (then Detlef Sierck) and starring Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel and Viktor Staal. It was Leander's first film for the German studio UFA, and its success brought her into the front rank of the company's stars. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.

Directed by: Douglas Sirk

Produced by: Bruno Duday

Written by: Lovis Hans Lorenz (novel)

Kurt Heuser

Douglas Sirk

Music by: Ralph Benatzky

Cinematography: Franz Weihmayr

Edited by: Milo Harbich

Production company: UFA

Distributed by: UFA

Release dates: 31 August 1937

Running time: 106 minutes

Country: Germany

Language: German

Starring:

Zarah Leander: Gloria Vane

Willy Birgel: Sir Albert Finsbury

Viktor Staal: Henry Hoyer

Carola Höhn: Mary Jones

Edwin Jürgensen: Governor Jones

Erich Ziegel: Dr. Magnus Hoyer

Hilde von Stolz: Fanny Hoyer

Jakob Tiedtke: Cheese producer Wells

Robert Dorsay: Bobby Wells

Ernst Legal: Stout

Siegfried Schürenberg: Captain Gilbert

Lina Lossen: Zuchthausvorsteherin in Paramatta

Lissy Arna: Prisoner Nelly

Herbert Hübner: Casino Director

Mady Rahl: Soubrette

Lina Carstens: Bänkelsängerin (story-singer)

Paul Bildt: Pastor and hairdresser

Plot:

Gloria Vane, a singer in Victorian London, takes the blame for her aristocratic lover Sir Albert Finsbury's forging of cheques. She is sentenced to be transported to Australia. Sir Albert then refuses to marry her, which would have allowed her to be released from prison, because he has made a more important strategic match with Mary Jones, the daughter of the Governor of Sydney. Eventually Gloria marries a local farmer Henry Hoyer and goes to settle in rural Australia with him. Filled with remorse, Sir Albert shoots himself.