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Der Verlorene Sohn (literally translates to "The Prodigal Son"), the 1934 Luis Trenker German/U.S. New York City Great Depression immigrant melodrama (about a German man who emigrates to New York City in 1934, and he sees how bleak America is, during the height of the Great Depression; obviously, director Trenker was creating a propaganda movie, showing Germans a very downbeat view of America, and the movie presented America in quite a different light than most Hollywood movies of that time) starring Maria Andergast, Luis Trenker, Paul Henkels, Eduard Kock, and Marian Marsh. Note that this movie was a co-production between the U.S. and Germany, and Universal Studios was the U.S. part of that. But we can find no sign that the movie was actually released in the U.S. (by Universal or anyone else), and it may be that once they saw the final product, they shelved the U.S. release. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that star/director Luis Trenker is a fascinating forgotten man in the history of film! He started out helping Arnold Fanck on his mountain movies. He became a filmmaker in the 1930s, making movies about how country life was better than city life, and the Nazis wanted him to make movies for them. He moved to Rome and made two documentaries there. After the war, he was accused of being a Fascist, but the charges were eventually dropped and he started making movies again, but before long, he only made documentaries and writing about mountains, his first love. He died at the age of 97 in 1990!
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