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Bookkeeper Kremke
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Wikipedia article
'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.Bergfelder, Carter & Gktrk p.172
It was made with backing from Germany's Socialist Party. It was one of two films, along with 'Brothers' (1929), made at the time that espoused 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, 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.
Synopsis
After losing his job, a clerk is devastated by the threatened drop in social status now that he is unemployed. However, his daughter falls in love with a chauffeur who encourages her to embrace her new working-class status.
Cast
* Hermann Vallentin as Kremke
* Anna Sten as Kremkes Tochter
* Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Junger Arbeiter
* Else Heller
* Inge Landgut
* Wolfgang Zilzer
References
Bibliography
* Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter & Deniz Gktrk. 'The German Cinema Book'. BFI, 2002.
* Bruce Arthur Murray. 'Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe'. University of Texas Press, 1990.
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