Lowlands (1954)
February 11, 1954Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
![Bernhard Minetti](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/311103-bernhard-minetti.webp)
Bernhard Minetti
Don Sebastian, Marquès von Roccabruna
![Leni Riefenstahl](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/52621-leni-riefenstahl.webp)
Leni Riefenstahl
Martha, eine spanische Betteltänzerin
![Aribert Wäscher](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/91512-aribert-wascher.webp)
Aribert Wäscher
Camillo, Verwalter des Don Sebastian
![Maria Koppenhöfer](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/82392-maria-koppenhofer.webp)
Maria Koppenhöfer
Doña Amelia
![Karl Skraup](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/309733-karl-skraup.webp)
Karl Skraup
Bürgermeister
![Rudolph Lothar](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1418491-rudolph-lothar.webp)
Rudolph Lothar
Writer
![Frida Richard](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22457-frida-richard.webp)
Frida Richard
Josefa
![Àngel Guimerà](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/935293-angel-guimera.webp)
Àngel Guimerà
Writer
![Luis Rainer](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Luis Rainer
Nando
![Max Holzboer](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Max Holzboer
Natario
![Albert Benitz](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Albert Benitz
Cinematographer
![Franz Eichberger](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Franz Eichberger
Pedro
![Mena Mair](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Mena Mair
Die Müllerin
![Till Klockow](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Till Klockow
Voice of Donna Amelia
![Josef Reinhardt](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Josef Reinhardt
Extra
![Herbert Windt](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Herbert Windt
Additional Music
![Rudolf Fichtner](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Rudolf Fichtner
Production Manager
![Harald Reinl](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/21741-harald-reinl.webp)
Harald Reinl
Assistant Director
![Walter Traut](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Walter Traut
Executive Producer
![Eugen D'Albert](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1520328-eugen-d-albert.webp)
Eugen D'Albert
Music
![Rolf Lantin](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Rolf Lantin
Still Photographer
![Gustav Jäger](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Gustav Jäger
Costume Design
![Elisabeth Massary](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Elisabeth Massary
Costume Design
![Paul Lange](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Paul Lange
Makeup Artist
![Franz Siebert](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Franz Siebert
Makeup Artist
![Rudolf Kaiser](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Rudolf Kaiser
Sound
![Herbert Janeczka](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Herbert Janeczka
Sound
![Josef Plesner](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Josef Plesner
Producer
![Max G. Hüske](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Max G. Hüske
Executive Producer
![Bekuch Hamid](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Bekuch Hamid
![Walter Brückner](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Walter Brückner
![Hans Lackner](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Hans Lackner
![Charlotte Komp](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Charlotte Komp
Media.
![Lowlands](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/138306-lowlands.webp)
Details.
Release DateFebruary 11, 1954
Original NameTiefland
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Budget$8,500,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Tiefland ("Lowlands") is a 1954 West German opera drama film directed, produced, co-written, edited by and starring Leni Riefenstahl, and based on the 1903 eponymous opera composed by Eugen d'Albert to a libretto by Rudolph Lothar based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà. The film co-stars Bernhard Minetti, and is Riefenstahl's last feature film as both director and lead actress.
Riefenstahl started to develop the script in 1934, with the movie being shot between 1940 and 1944. However, it was not completed by the end of World War II and was eventually finalized and released on February 11, 1954. It was once listed as the feature film with the longest production time in history by the Guinness Book of World Records. This record was later surpassed by The Thief and the Cobbler (with 29 years of production from 1964 to 1993), and there exist films with production times that are longer still.
Riefenstahl's movie is the second Tiefland film that is based on the opera, the first one being a silent film in 1922, directed by Adolf E. Licho, with Lil Dagover as the main actress. The earlier American silent movie Marta of the Lowlands (1914) was based on the English translation of a Spanish translation of Guimerà's play.