Three Birch Trees on the Heath

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Three Birch Trees on the Heath
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Directed by Ulrich Erfurth
Written by Erich Engels
Wolf Neumeister
Produced by Walter Koppel
Gyula Trebitsch
Starring Margit Saad
Sonja Sutter
Helmuth Schneider
Cinematography Willy Winterstein
Edited by Ilse Voigt
Music by Siegfried Franz
Production
company
Distributed by J. Arthur Rank Film
Release date
  • 30 November 1956 (1956-11-30)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Three Birch Trees on the Heath (German: Drei Birken auf der Heide) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Ulrich Erfurth and starring Margit Saad, Sonja Sutter and Helmuth Schneider. It was one of 54 heimatfilm produced that year, as the genre's popularity reached its peak. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Dieter Bartels. The film was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location around Lüneburg Heath outside the city.

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  1. Boa & Palfreyman p.214

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