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The Merry Farmer (German: Der fidele Bauer) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Carmen Boni, Werner Krauss and S.Z. Sakall.[1] It is based on the 1907 operetta of the same title. A 1951 film adaptation was also made.

The Merry Farmer
Directed by	Franz Seitz
Written by	Viktor Léon (libretto) Charlie Roellinghoff Klaus Fery
Produced by	Klaus Fery
Starring	Carmen Boni Werner Krauss S.Z. Sakall
Cinematography	Eduard Hoesch Giovanni Vitrotti
Music by	Leo Fall
Production company	Fery-Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	10 November 1927
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.

Cast

In alphabetical order

• Achmed Beh
• Carmen Boni as Spreewälderin
• Hans Brausewetter
• Ivy Close
• Harry Frank
• Werner Krauss as Bauer Mathäus Reuther
• André Nox as Prof. von Grumow
• Leo Peukert
• S.Z. Sakall as Dorfpolizist
• Simone Vaudry
• Peter Voß
• Mathias Wieman as Sohn Stephan Reuther

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• The Merry Farmer at IMDb
• "Der fidele Bauer". murnau-stiftung.de (in German). Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation. Retrieved 28 July 2017.

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