The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Imitations of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk
December 23, 2015 - January 6, 2016
Sirk’s second feature—about the fortunes of a young, unwed mother shunned by society—is a luminous pastoral melodrama and one of the director’s most sensitive, lyrical films.
In his second feature film, Sirk (then still known as Detlef Sierck) crafts a luminous pastoral melodrama from a story by Nobel Prize–winning Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. It follows the fortunes of a young, unwed mother (Hansi Knoteck) taken in as a maid by a kindly farmer (Kurt Fischer-Fehling), only to be shunned by his small-minded fiancée. One of Sirk’s first explorations of small-town prejudice—a recurring concern throughout his work—glows with romantic, bucolic imagery and a sincere empathy for its outcast heroine. The result is one of the director’s most sensitive, lyrical films.
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