6 Early Douglas Sirk Films to Make Their UK Bluray Debuts [Trailer/Artwork]

A boxset of Sirk's early German work comes to UK bluray in February.

Director Douglas Sirk is best known for the colourful melodramas he helmed in Hollywood throughout the 1950s. But before leaving for America, Sirk had established himself in his native Germany, first as a theatre director before transitioning seamlessly to the world of film.

A new two-disc bluray boxset from Eureka Entertainment - 'Sirk in Germany 1934-1935' - collects three of Sirk's German features (April, April; The Girl from Marsh Croft; Pillars of Society) and three shorts (Two Greyhounds; Three Times Before; The Imaginary Invalid), all of which are making their UK bluray debuts. The films are presented from brand-new restorations by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation.

'Sirk in Germany 1934-1935' is available from February 24th, 2025.

Check out Eureka's trailer and artwork below.

The official synopsis reads:

In Sirk’s directorial debut – the comedy April, April! – a businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe (Erhard Siedel), is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince (Albrecht Schoenhals) intends to personally inspect his pasta factory. Then, in Sirk’s first melodrama The Girl from Marsh Croft, farmer Karsten Dittmar (Kurt Fischer-Fehling) falls in love with the disreputable young maid Helga Christmann (Hansi Knoteck) – much to the dismay of his fiancée Gertrud Gerhart (Ellen Frank). Finally, in Pillars of Society, wealthy Norwegian shipbuilder Consul Karsten Bernick (Heinrich George) must face up to a lifetime of corruption and deceit when farmer Johann Tonnessen (Albrecht Schoenhals) returns to Norway after a twenty-year absence and discovers that Bernick has smeared his good name.