The Curse (1924 film)

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The Curse
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German Der Fluch
Directed by Robert Land
Written by Walter Reisch
Ernst Weizmann
Produced byRobert Land
Starring
Cinematography Nicolas Farkas
Production
company
Land-Film
Release date
  • 28 February 1925 (1925-02-28)(Austria)
CountryAustria
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

The Curse ( ‹See Tfd› German : Der Fluch) is a 1924 Austrian drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Lilian Harvey, Oscar Beregi and Albert Heine. It was shot at the Sievering Studios.

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The film marked the screen debut of Lilian Harvey who would go on to become one of the top stars at the German box office during the late Weimar and early Nazi eras. Harvey was in Vienna at the time because she was appearing in a stage revue show. [1]

Plot

A young Jewish woman in an Eastern European shtetl struggles to reconcile her aspirations with her duty to her family. As her lifestyle grows wilder, her mother is shocked by her immoral behaviour and commits suicide by drowning - repeating "the curse" which has haunted the family for centuries. [2]

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References

  1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 186. ISBN   1571816550. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.
  2. Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2007) [2005]. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Film Europa. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 21. ISBN   1845453034. JSTOR   j.ctt9qd8qp.

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