''Blum Affair'' (german: Affaire Blum) is a 1948 German
drama film directed by
Erich Engel and starring
Hans Christian Blech,
Ernst Waldow and
Karin Evans. It is based on a real 1926 case in
Magdeburg in which a German Jewish industrialist is tried for murder. The film was produced in the future
East Germany and produced by
DEFA. It was shot at the
Babelsberg Studios and
Althoff Studios
The Althoff Studios (german: Althoff-Atelier) were film studios located in Potsdam outside the German capital Berlin.
The studios were constructed in 1939 by the film producer Gustav Althoff who controlled the independent company Aco-Film. The or ...
in the
Soviet zone. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Emil Hasler.
Cast
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Hans Christian Blech as Karlheinz Gabler
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Ernst Waldow as Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger
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Paul Bildt as Untersuchungsrichter Konrat
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Karin Evans as Sabine Blum
*
Helmuth Rudolph as Wilschinsky - Regierungspräsident
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Alfred Schieske
Alfred Schieske (6 September 1908 – 14 July 1970) was a German actor.
Career
Schieske was born in Stuttgart, the son of a German father and a French mother. He studied acting with Willy Reichert made his stage debut at the Staatstheater Stut ...
as Kriminalkommissar Otto Bonte
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Gisela Trowe
Gisela Trowe (5 September 1922 in Dortmund – 5 April 2010 in Hamburg) was a German actress and voice actress.
Selected filmography
* 1948: '' Street Acquaintances''
* 1948: ''The Time with You''
* 1948: '
* 1948: '' Affaire Blum''
* 1951: ' ...
as Christina Burman
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Kurt Ehrhardt
Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor.
In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and is ...
as Dr. Jakob Blum
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Gerhard Bienert as Karl Bremer
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Herbert Hübner as Landgerichtsdirektor Hecht
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Friedrich Maurer as Lawyer Dr. Gerhard Wormser
* as Hans Fischer - Gutsvolontär
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Arno Paulsen as Wilhelm Platzer
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Hilde Adolphi
Hilde may refer to:
*Hilde (given name)
* ''Hilde'' (film), a 2009 German biopic film
* MV ''Hilde'', a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker
*Tom Hilde (born 1987), Norwegian ski jumper
Characters
*Hilde (Soulcalibur), a character in the ''Soul'' series ...
as Alma - das 'süße' Mädchen
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Maly Delschaft as Anna Platzer
*
Hugo Kalthoff
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Arts and entertainment
* ''Hugo'' (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese
* Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback
* Hugo (franchise), a children's media franchise based on a ...
as Kriminalassistent Lorenz
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Blandine Ebinger
Blandine Ebinger (born Blandine Loeser) (4 November 1899, in Berlin – 25 December 1993, in Berlin) was a German actress and ''chansonniere''.
Career
Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavi ...
as Lucie Schmerschneider
*
Reinhard Kolldehoff as Max Tischbein - Lehrer
*
Emmy Burg
Emmy Burg (1903–1982) was a German film and television actress.Rentschler p.326
Selected filmography
* '' The Beaver Coat'' (1949)
* ''Homesick for You'' (1952)
* '' Bon Voyage'' (1954)
* ''The Witch'' (1954)
* ''Before God and Man'' (1955)
* ...
as Therese
*
Renée Stobrawa
Renée Stobrawa (born Renate Stobrawa; 13 October 1897 in Dresden – 16 August 1971 in Tegernsee) was a German screenwriter and film actress.
Partial filmography
* ''The Mistress and her Servant'' (1929) - Frau Matjunke
* '' Melody of the Worl ...
as Frieda Bremer
*
Jean Brahn
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* J ...
as Fritz Merkel
*
Albert Venohr as Waffenhändler
*
Gertrud Boll
Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to:
Places In space
*Gertrude (crater), a crater on Uranus's moon Titania
*710 Gertrud, a minor planet
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* Gertrude, Arkansas
*Gertrude, Washington
* Gertrude, West Virginia
People
*Gertrude (g ...
as Dienstmädchen bei Dr. Blum
*
Otto Matthies
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded f ...
as Reporter
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Herbert Malsbender as Redakteur
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Werner Peters as Egon Konrad
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Margarete Schön as Sophie Konrad
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Eva Bodden as Sekretärin bei Wilschninsky
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Arthur Schröder as Landtagsabgeordneter von Hinkeldey
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Richard Drosten
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...
as Zahnarzt
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Lili Schoenborn-Anspach
''Lili'' is a 1953 American film released by MGM. It stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The film won the Academy Award for ...
as Patientin
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Margarete Salbach as Ruth Tischbein
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."
The film sold more than 4,330,000 tickets, making it one of
DEFA's all-time most successful productions.
List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
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References
External links
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1948 films
1948 drama films
German drama films
East German films
1940s German-language films
German black-and-white films
German courtroom films
Drama films based on actual events
Films directed by Erich Engel
Films set in the 1920s
Films about Jews and Judaism
Films about antisemitism
1940s German films
Films shot at Althoff Studios
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Films scored by Herbert Trantow
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