Die goldene Stadt (1942)

Directed by: Veit Harlan

Produced by: UFA

Music by: Hans-Otto Borgmann after motives by Smetana

Written by: Veit Harlan, Alfred Braun, Werner Eplinius - based on the play by Richard Billinger

Cinematography: Bruno Mondi (Agfacolor)

Edited by: Friedrich Karl von Puttkamer

Release dates: 1942

Running time: 110 minutes

Country: Germany

Language: German

Starring:

Kristina Söderbaum: Anna Jobst

Eugen Klöpfer: Melchior Jobst

Annie Rosar: Aunt of Anna

Dagny Servaes: Lilli

Paul Klinger: Engineer Leitwein

Kurt Meisel: Toni

Rudolf Prack: Thomas

Liselotte Schreiner: Marischka

Hans Hermann Schaufuß: Nemetschek

Frida Richard: Mrs. Amend

Inge Drexel: Maidservant Julie

Walter Lieck: Julies Bräutigam Ringl

Ernst Legal: Peasant Pelikan

Maria Hofen: Peasant woman

Valy Arnheim: Notar Alois Wengraf

Else Ehser: Maidservant at Anna Jobst

Hugo Flink: Postman in Prague

Josef Dahmen: Peasant

Karl Harbacher: Peasant

Emmerich Hanus: Peasant

Plot

Anna, a young, innocent country girl (a Sudeten German), whose mother drowned in the swamp, dreams of the golden city of Prague. After she falls in love with a surveyor, she runs away to Prague to find him. She is instead seduced and abandoned by her cousin (a Czech). She attempts to return home, but her father rejects her, and she drowns herself in the swamp where her mother died.