Where the Ancient Forests Rustle

{{Short description|1956 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Where the Ancient Forests Rustle | image = Where the Ancient Forests Rustle.jpg | caption = | director = Alfons Stummer | producer = {{ubl|Eberhard Meichsner|Walter Traut}} | writer = {{ubl|Alfons Stummer|Werner P. Zibaso}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Willy Fritsch|Josefin Kipper|Carl Möhner}} | music = {{ubl|Marc Roland|Rolf A. Wilhelm}} | cinematography = Herbert Thallmayer | editing = Walter Boos | studio = Divina-Film | distributor = Gloria Film | released = {{Film date|1956|09|14|df=yes}} | runtime = 89 minutes | country = West Germany | language = German | budget = | gross = }} '''''Where the Ancient Forests Rustle''''' ({{langx|de|'''Wo die alten Wälder rauschen'''}}) is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Alfons Stummer and starring Willy Fritsch, Josefin Kipper and Carl Möhner. It was one of a large number of heimatfilm pictures made during the decade.<ref>Höbusch p. 74</ref>

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon.

==Synopsis== The widowed owner of a Hamburg construction company takes his young son on holiday to the Austrian Alps, but his obsession with work drives a wedge between them.

==Cast== {{cast listing| * Willy Fritsch as Harald Rehm * Josefin Kipper as Margret Bruhn * Carl Möhner as Klaus Baumgartner * Armin Dahlen as Toni Burgstaller * Peter Finkbeiner as Nils, Rehms Sohn * Peter Fischer as Loisl * Gundula Korte * Maria Hofen * Lotte Rausch * Gerty Godden as Barbara Henkel * Elfie Pertramer as Vroni, Hausmädchen * Herta Staal * Michl Lang * Franz Fröhlich * Til Kiwe as Eibl, Ingenieur * Sepp Rist }}

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Harald Höbusch. ''"Mountain of Destiny": Nanga Parbat and Its Path Into the German Imagination''. Boydell & Brewer, 2016.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0049960}}

Category:1956 films Category:West German films Category:German drama films Category:1956 drama films Category:1956 German-language films Category:Gloria Film films Category:Films set in Austria Category:Films set in the Alps Category:Films set in forests Category:1956 German films Category:Films scored by Rolf Alexander Wilhelm Category:German-language drama films