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Once You Give Away Your Heart

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Once You Give Away Your Heart
Directed byJohannes Guter
Written by
Based on Der Vagabund vom Äquator
by Ludwig von Wohl
Produced byGünther Stapenhorst
Starring
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release dates
  • 28 November 1929 (1929-11-28) (silent)
  • 17 January 1930 (1930-01-17) (sound)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Once You Give Away Your Heart (German: Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst) is a 1929 German comedy film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Lilian Harvey, Igo Sym, and Harry Halm.[1] Made at the time of the conversion to sound film, it was released in both sound and silent versions.

The film's art direction was by Heinz Fenchel and Jacek Rotmil. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Tenerife and on board a cargo steamer sailing from Hamburg.

Synopsis

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A young woman escapes from the banana plantation in Borneo where she lives and travels on a cargo ship to Europe.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder, p. 456.

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
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