Overview
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.
Director and cast
- F. W. Murnau Director
- Werner Krauss as Der alte Rog / Old Rog
- Eugen Klöpfer as Peter Rog
- Vladimir Gajdarov as Johannes Rog
- Eduard von Winterstein as Graf Rudenburg / Count Rudenburg
- Lya De Putti as Gerda, Rudenburgs Tochter / Gerda, Rudenburg's daughter
- Stella Arbenina as Helga, Rudenburgs zweite Frau / Helga, Rudenburg's 2nd wife
- Alfred Abel as Ludwig von Lellewel
- Eugen Rex Cast
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