The Blacksmith of St. Bartholomae (German: Der Schmied von St. Bartholomä) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Max Michel and starring Viktor Staal, Marianne Koch and Annie Rosar.Bock & Bergfelder p.253Moeller p.258 It was shot on location at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria and in a makeshift studio nearby. The film's sets were designed by the art director Curt Stallmach. It was part of the postwar boom in heimatfilm that peaked around this year.
Synopsis After nine years in a Soviet Prisoner of War camp, a former blacksmith returns to his home village in the Alps but has been left emotionally scarred and bitter from his experiences and struggles to settle back in.
Cast Viktor Staal as Thomas Marianne Koch as Marianne Heinz Engelmann as Martin Annie Rosar as Andrea Rolf von Nauckhoff as Pater Bernhard Sepp Rist as Gend.-Inspektor Gustl Gstettenbaur as Max Peter Czejke as Walter Til Kiwe as Ruppert Heinz Schimmelpfennig as Landstreicher Franz Loskarn as Gend.-Komissar
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Bibliography Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. Moeller, Robert G. War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany. University of California Press, 2001.
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