The Lost Valley (German: Das verlorene Tal) is a 1934 German-Swiss drama film directed by Edmund Heuberger and starring Mathias Wieman, Marieluise Claudius and Harry Hardt.[1] It is based on the 1931 novel of the same title by Gustav Renker.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jacoby. Location shooting took place around Poschiavo in Switzerland.

The Lost Valley
Directed byEdmund Heuberger
Written byEdmund Heuberger
Based onThe Lost Valley by Gustav Renker
Produced byRalph Scotoni
StarringMathias Wieman
Marieluise Claudius
Harry Hardt
CinematographyFranz Weihmayr
Edited byElse Baum
Music byFritz Wenneis
Production
companies
Terra Film
Basilea-Film
Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 5 June 1934 (1934-06-05)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Synopsis edit

A young man returns to his home village and discovers that his childhood sweetheart is now engaged to a civil engineer who also plans to flood his beloved woods to create a reservoir.

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References edit

  1. ^ Waldman p.107
  2. ^ Goble p.387

Bibliography edit

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

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