Heart of Stone

Dec 8, 1950

1h 41m

★ 6.0

Overview

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.

Genres

Family

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

DEFA

Heart of Stone Trailers

Cast

Peter Munk

Lutz Moik

Lisbeth

Hanna Rucker

Ezechiel

Paul Esser

Glasmännlein

Paul Bildt

Holländer-Michel

Erwin Geschonneck

Hannes

Hannsgeorg Laubenthal

Amtmann

Walter Tarrach

Peters Mutter

Lotte Loebinger

Lisbeths Oheim

Alexander Engel

Meister Anton

Karl Hellmer

Herbert Kiper

Karl-Heinz Deickert

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