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1953 film

Your Heart Is My Homeland

Directed by	Richard Häussler
Written by	Irmgard Wurmbrand (novel) Thea von Harbou
Starring	Inge Egger Erwin Strahl Viktor Staal
Cinematography	Walter Tuch
Edited by	Max Michel
Music by	Anton Profes
Production companies	Beta Film Primus Film
Distributed by	Kopp-Filmverleih
Release date	13 November 1953 (1953-11-13)
Running time	81 minutes
Countries	Austria West Germany
Language	German

Your Heart Is My Homeland (German: Dein Herz ist meine Heimat) is a 1953 Austrian-West German drama film directed by Richard Häussler and starring Inge Egger, Erwin Strahl and Viktor Staal. It is also known as Magdalena Percht after the lead character. It is part of the trend of post-war heimatfilm. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Salzburg.

The script was written by Metropolis screenwriter Thea von Harbou. The project had originally been planned in 1947 to be directed by Eduard von Borsody as a comeback vehicle for the actor Attila Hörbiger.

Cast

Inge Egger as Magdalena Percht
Erwin Strahl as Andreas Möbius
Viktor Staal as Christian Möbius
Elisabeth Markus as Magdalenas Mutter
Heinrich Gretler as Bürgermeister Percht
Albert Florath as Lehrer
Walter Janssen as Pfarrer
Bum Krüger as Wirt
Melanie Horeschowsky as Frau Heftel
Alfred Menhardt
Eva Orler
Anton Gaugl
Gustav Waldau
Kurt von Lessen

References

Von Dassanowsky p.155
Fritsche p.249
Von Dassanowsky p.155

Bibliography

Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.

External links

Your Heart Is My Homeland at IMDb

v t e Thea von Harbou
List of works
Films directed	Elisabeth and the Fool (1934) Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1934)
Films written	The Legend of Holy Simplicity (1920) The Wandering Image (1920) Destiny (1921) Four Around a Woman (1921) The Indian Tomb (1921) The Women of Gnadenstein (1921) The Burning Soil (1922) Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) Phantom (1922) The Expulsion (1923) The Stone Rider (1923) Princess Suwarin (1923) The Grand Duke's Finances (1924) Die Nibelungen (1924) Michael (1924) Chronicles of the Gray House (1925) Metropolis (1927) Spione (1928) Woman in the Moon (1929) M (1931) The First Right of the Child (1932) The Marathon Runner (1933) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) The Old and the Young King (1934) Princess Turandot (1934) What Am I Without You (1934) Turandot, Princess of China (1935) The Old and the Young King (1935) An Ideal Husband (1935) Escapade (1936) The Impossible Woman (1936) A Woman of No Importance (1936) The Broken Jug (1937) Don't Promise Me Anything (1937) Mother Song (1937) The Ruler (1937) Covered Tracks (1938) The Woman at the Crossroads (1938) Hurrah! I'm a Father (1939) Stars of Variety (1939) Clarissa (1941) With the Eyes of a Woman (1942) Maria Malibran (1943) A Wife for Three Days (1944) Via Mala (1945) Journey to Happiness (1948) A Day Will Come (1950) Dr. Holl (1951) Your Heart Is My Homeland (1953)
Novels written	The Indian Tomb (1918) Metropolis (1925) The Rocket to the Moon (1928)

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