Love and the First Railway
film directed by Robert Neppach
Love and the First Railway (German: Die Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn) is a 1934 German historical comedy film directed by Hasso Preiss, produced by Robert Neppach and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Ida Wüst, and Karin Hardt. The plot revolves around the construction of the railway line between Berlin and Potsdam in the 1830s, the first in the Kingdom of Prussia.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff.
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Bibliography
Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942.
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