Bookkeeper Kremke (1930)

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

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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