The Burning Soil

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director F. W. Murnau

Status Released

Release Date 1922-03-03

Storyline

When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.