Bookkeeper Kremke
- Hermann Vallentin
- Anna Sten
- Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Franz Koch
company
- 15 September 1930 (1930-09-15)
German intertitles
Bookkeeper Kremke (German: Lohnbuchhalter Kremke) is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Marie Harder and starring Hermann Vallentin, Anna Sten and Ivan Koval-Samborsky.[1]
It was made with backing from Germany's Socialist Party. It was one of two films, along with Brothers (1929), made at the time that espoused the movement's left-wing ideology. The film's sets were designed by Carl Ludwig Kirmse.
It was not a commercial success on its release, generally attributed to its theme and to the fact that it was a released as a silent at a time when cinemas had gone over almost entirely to showing sound films.
Synopsis
After losing his job, a clerk is devastated by the threatened drop in social status now that he is unemployed. However, his daughter falls in love with a chauffeur who encourages her to embrace her new working-class status.
Cast
- Hermann Vallentin as Kremke
- Anna Sten as Kremkes Tochter
- Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Junger Arbeiter
- Else Heller
- Inge Landgut
- Wolfgang Zilzer
References
- ^ Bergfelder, Carter & Göktürk p.172
Bibliography
- Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter & Deniz Göktürk. The German Cinema Book. BFI, 2002.
- Bruce Arthur Murray. Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe. University of Texas Press, 1990.
External links
- Bookkeeper Kremke at IMDb
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