The Merry Vineyard (1927 film)

The Merry Vineyard
Directed by	Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck
Written by	Carl Zuckmayer (play) Adolf Lantz
Produced by	Hermann Fellner Arnold Pressburger Josef Somlo
Starring	Rudolf Rittner Camilla Horn Lotte Neumann
Cinematography	Otto Kanturek
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	F.P.G. Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date	20 December 1927
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The Merry Vineyard (German: Der fröhliche Weinberg) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Rudolf Rittner, Camilla Horn and Lotte Neumann. It was based on a play by Carl Zuckmayer, which was remade in 1952 as a sound film.

The film's art direction was by Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.

Cast

• Rudolf Rittner as Jean Baptiste Gunderloch
• Camilla Horn as Klärchen Gunderloch, daughter of above
• Lotte Neumann as Annemarie Most, housekeeper of Jean Baptiste
• Gyula Szőreghy as Eismayr, landlord of Landskrone inn
• Camilla von Hollay as Babettchen Eismayr
• Fritz Odemar as Knuzius, fiancée of Klärchen
• Carl de Vogt as Jochen Most skipper on the Rhine
• Heinrich Gotho as Rindsfuß, wine merchant
• Karl Harbacher as Stenz, wine merchant
• Bodo Serp as Vogelsberger - wine merchant
• Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Frl. Stenz
• Friedrich Lobe as Hahnesand, traveller for a wine firm
• Oscar Ebelsbacher as Löbche Bär, traveller for a wine firm
• Paul Morgan as Meyer & Sohn
• Karl Gerhardt as Kurrle, registrar and auctioneer
• Else Reval as Ms. Rindsfuß
• Geza L. Weiss as son of Meyer

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The Merry Vineyard at IMDb