Lied der Wildbahn

Song of the Wild is Heinz Sielmanns first feature film made in black and white and a valuable contemporary document Filming took place in 1948 and 1949 in the Deister at the Meißendorf ponds near Celle in the Lüneburg Heath on the Ems between Papenburg and Lingen and in the Harz At a time when food rations were low and poaching was everywhere when the British victorious power had large areas of forest cut down the film was intended to educate people about the value of the nature around them The film premiered in the fall of 1949 and became a huge box office success