The Tannhof Women | |
Director: | Franz Seitz |
Starring: | Rudolf Klein-Rogge Paul Richter Ursula Grabley |
Music: | Toni Thoms |
Cinematography: | Franz Koch |
Studio: | Arnold & Richter GmbH |
Country: | Germany |
Language: | German |
The Tannhof Women (German: Die Frauen vom Tannhof) is a 1934 German drama film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Paul Richter and Ursula Grabley. It was distributed in America in 1936 and reviewed by the New York Times.[1]
For more than a hundred years a curse has seemingly hung over the Tanhoff family, due to the hard-heartedness of once of their ancestors, all the woman of the family die in childbirth. Hertha, a self-confident city girl marrying the heir to the Tanhoff estate, tries to overcome the family's fears about the curse.