The Oppenheim Family (russian: Семья Оппенгейм, Semja Oppengejm) is a 1938 (released in May 1939 in the USA) Soviet

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

, directed by

Grigori Roshal Grigori Lvovich Roshal (russian: Григорий Львович Рошаль; October 21, 1899 – January 11, 1983) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 26 films between 1926 and 1968. Biography Grigori Roshal was born o ...

. It is one of the earliest film directly dealing with the persecution of

Jews in Nazi Germany The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (''circa'' 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jews, As ...

. Based on ''The Oppermanns'' - a novel by

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's J ...

Cast

*Vladimir Balashov - Berthold Oppenheim *Joseph Tolchanov - Martin Oppenheim * Ada Wójcik - Liselotte *

Nikolai Plotnikov Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov (russian: Николай Сергеевич Пло́тников; 5 November 1897 – 3 February 1979) was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in the 1949 biopic ''Ivan Pavlov''. Selected filmography * ''Dawn of Paris'' ...

- Edgar Oppenheim *Galina Minovitskaya - Ruth Oppenheim *Raisa Esipova - Sybil *

Osip Abdulov Osip Naumovich Abdulov (russian: Осип Наумович Абдулов; in Łódź – 14 June 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor. Biography Osip Naumovich Abdulov was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empi ...

- Jacques Lavendel *S.D. Zykov - Heinrich Lavendel, schoolboy, friend of Bertolt *

Solomon Mikhoels Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels ( yi, שלמה מיכאעלס lso spelled שלוימע מיכאעלס during the Soviet era russian: Cоломон (Шлойме) Михоэлс, – 13 January 1948) was a Latvian born Soviet Jewish actor and the ar ...

- Jacobi *Sergey Dnieper - Francois, director of the gymnasium *Arkady Blagonravov - Lorenz, director of the clinic *

Nikolay Bogolyubov Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretic ...

- Weller *Vladimir Solovyov - Pahinke *

Aleksey Konsovsky Aleksey Anatolyevich Konsovsky (russian: Алексей Анатольевич Консовский; 28 January 1912 – 20 July 1991) was a Soviet and Russian film, stage and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1976). Biography He wa ...

- Richard *

Mikhail Astangov Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), real surname Ruzhnikov () ( in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1955). ...

- Vogelsang *Konstantin Karelian - Rittersteg *

Sergey Martinson Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мартинсон; – 2 September 1984) was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. He became People's Artist of t ...

- Gutwetter poet *Mikhail Derzhavin - Wells, industrialist

External links

THE SCREEN; 'The Oppenheim Family,' Soviet Film Version of a Feuchtwanger Novel, Arrives at the Cameo, NYT
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