Underplayed Gems

Bookkeeper Kremke (1930)

Bookkeeper Kremke poster
Original title
Lohnbuchhalter Kremke
Directed by
Marie Harder
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 01m
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An aging bookkeeper loses his job and struggles with poverty and humiliation during the economic crisis. The film shows his quiet desperation and the socialist message of working class solidarity.

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What happens

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. It was made with backing from Germany's Socialist Party. Along with Brothers (1929), it was one of two contemporary films espousing 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, which is 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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