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Bookkeeper Kremke

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Bookkeeper Kremke
Directed byMarie Harder
Written byHerbert Rosenfeld
StarringHermann Vallentin
Anna Sten
Ivan Koval-Samborsky
CinematographyRobert Baberske
Franz Koch
Production
company
Naturfilm Hubert Schonger
Release date
15 September 1930
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

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.[1]

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

References

  1. ^ Bergfelder, Carter & Göktürk p.172

Bibliography

  • Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter & Deniz Göktürk. 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.