Blum Affair
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Directed by | Erich Engel |
Produced by | Herbert Uhlich |
Written by | Robert A. Stemmle |
Starring | Hans Christian Blech |
Cinematography | Karl Plintzner |
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109 minutes |
Country | East Germany |
Language | German |
Blum Affair (German: Affaire Blum) is an East German drama film directed by Erich Engel. It was released in 1948. A German Jewish industrialist is tried for murder. It is based on a real 1926 case in Magdeburg.[1]
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Cast
- Hans Christian Blech as Karlheinz Gabler
- Ernst Waldow as Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger
- Paul Bildt as Untersuchungsrichter Konrat
- Karin Evans as Sabine Blum
- Helmuth Rudolph as Wilschinsky - Regierungspräsident
- Alfred Schieske as Kriminalkommissar Otto Bonte
- Gisela Trowe as Christina Burman
- Kurt Ehrhardt as Dr. Jakob Blum
- Gerhard Bienert as Karl Bremer
- Herbert Hübner as Langerichtsdirektor Hecht
- Friedrich Maurer as Rechtsanwalt Dr. Gerhard Wormser
- Klaus Becker as Hans Fischer - Gutsvolontär
- Arno Paulsen as Wilhelm Platzer
- Hilde Adolphi as Alma - das 'süße' Mädchen
Reception
Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, praised it as "a trenchant dramatic exposition of the way in which an innocent German Jew is almost destroyed by nascent Nazis—back in 1926."[2]
The film sold more than 4,330,000 tickets, making it one of DEFA's all-time most successful productions.[3]
References
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- ↑ List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Blum Affair at IMDb
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Categories:
- 1948 films
- German-language films
- Articles containing German-language text
- 1940s drama films
- German drama films
- East German films
- German black-and-white films
- Courtroom films
- Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft films
- Films based on actual events
- Films directed by Erich Engel
- Films set in the 1920s
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films about racism
- 1940s German film stubs