Judith Trachtenberg (1920)

Directed by

Henrik Galeen

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish woman enters a relationship with an aristocrat. Her story explores the pressures of assimilation and identity in early 20th century Germany.

poignantmelancholicquietly tensecontemplativeemotionally heavyrestrainedsomber

What happens

Judith Trachtenberg is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Leontine Kühnberg, Ernst Deutsch and Leonhard Haskel. It was based on the 1890 novel of the same title by Karl Emil Franzos. In 1932 it was released in the United States, re-edited to include sound, under the alternative title A Daughter of Her People. It was one of a significant cycle of films in the early 1920s which dealt with issues of Jewish cultural assimilation including Love One Another (1922), The Ancient Law (1923) and The City Without Jews (1924). The film's plotline of a Jewish woman becoming involved with an aristocratic figure follows what is known as an "Esterka story". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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