STADT ANATOL

DE 1936. Dir: Viktor Tourjansky. 85 min. 35mm

with Brigitte Horney, Gustav Fröhlich, Fritz Kampers, Rose Stradner, Harry Liedtke, Aribert Wäscher

When oil is discovered, greed for the “black gold” transforms a tranquil Balkan town into an ultimately burning inferno. Visual borrowings from the silent film avant-garde and unleashed special effects made Stadt Anatol a “disaster film to rival W. S. Van Dyke’s San Francisco” (History of German Cinema).

Indroduction: Martin Abraham, Kiel