Bookkeeper Kremke

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Bookkeeper Kremke
Directed byMarie Harder
Written by Herbert Rosenfeld
Starring
Cinematography Robert Baberske
Franz Koch
Production
company
Naturfilm Hubert Schonger
Release date
  • 15 September 1930 (1930-09-15)
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]

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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.

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References

  1. Bergfelder, Carter & Göktürk p.172

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