Hannele's Journey to Heaven | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Urban Gad |
Cinematography: | Karl Hasselmann |
Studio: | Terra Film |
Distributor: | Terra Film |
Runtime: | 105 minutes |
Country: | Germany |
Language: | Silent German intertitles |
Hannele's Journey to Heaven (German: Hanneles Himmelfahrt) is a 1922 German silent film directed by Urban Gad and starring Margarete Schlegel, Margarete Schön and Hermann Vallentin.[1] The film is based on the play, The Assumption of Hannele by German author Gerhart Hauptmann. It was remade as a sound film in 1934.
It is set in a small mountain village and tells the story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.