Die Austreibung (1923)

Director:

F.W. Murnau

Writers:

Carl Hauptmann (play), Thea von Harbou

Stars:

Carl Goetz, Ilka Grüning, Eugen Klöpfer

Cast

Cast overview:
Carl Goetz	...	Vater Steyer
Ilka Grüning	...	Mutter Steyer
Eugen Klöpfer	...	Sohn Steyer
Aud Egede-Nissen	...	Ludmilla
Lucie Mannheim	...	Änne
William Dieterle	...	Lauer - der Jäger (as Wilhelm Dieterle)
Robert Leffler	...	Pfarrer
Jakob Tiedtke	...	Rentschreiber
Emilie Kurz	...	Dorfschneiderin

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on play

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Genres:

Short | Drama

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Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

3 February 1924 (Finland)

Also Known As:

The Expulsion

Filming Locations:

Karkonosze Mountains, Dolnoslaskie, Poland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Decla-Bioscop AG

Technical Specs

Runtime:

40 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.

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Connections

Referenced in Die Sprache der Schatten: Murnau - Die frühen Werke (2008)

User Reviews

Murnau's Thirteenth film is among the lost: synopsis follows.

This is another of Murnau's peasant films - here the conflict is between those loyal to the land and those needing to abandon it.

Steyer is an old man who lives on an isolated farm with his widowed son and that man's daughter. When the son remarries, he chooses Ludmilla, who marries him only to escape poverty, while cheating on him with Lauer, the hunter. Ludmilla influences Steyer to sell the farm to move to the village for her sake as well as his granddaughter's. Ludmilla merely wants to be nearer to her lover. Steyer suddenly repents of his action and attempts to cancel the sale. Steyer discovers his daughter-in-law's infidelity during a snowstorm. Disillusioned, he allows the sale to go forward.

This is a LOST film - no negative or positive materials are known to exist.

Above gleaned from Lotte Eisner's biography of Murnau.