The Burning Soil (1922)

"The Burning Soil" is a 1922 Drama movie directed by F. W. Murnau and starring by Werner Krauss, Eugen Klöpfer. When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.