Blum Affair

Blum Affair
Blum Affair
Directed by	Erich Engel
Written by	Robert A. Stemmle
Produced by
Starring	Hans Christian Blech
Cinematography	Karl Plintzner
Production; company	DEFA
Release date	3 December 1948;
Running time	109 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

Blum Affair (German: Affaire Blum) is an East German drama film directed by Erich Engel. It was released in 1948. A German Jewish industrialist is tried for murder. It is based on a real 1926 case in Magdeburg.^[1]

Cast[]

Hans Christian Blech as Karlheinz Gabler
Ernst Waldow as Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger
Paul Bildt as Untersuchungsrichter Konrat
Karin Evans as Sabine Blum
Helmuth Rudolph as Wilschinsky - Regierungspräsident
Alfred Schieske as Kriminalkommissar Otto Bonte
Gisela Trowe as Christina Burman
as Dr. Jakob Blum
Gerhard Bienert as Karl Bremer
Herbert Hübner as Landgerichtsdirektor Hecht
as Lawyer Dr. Gerhard Wormser
as Hans Fischer - Gutsvolontär
Arno Paulsen as Wilhelm Platzer
as Alma - das 'süße' Mädchen

Reception[]

Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, praised it as "a trenchant dramatic exposition of the way in which an innocent German Jew is almost destroyed by nascent Nazis—back in 1926."^[2]

The film sold more than 4,330,000 tickets, making it one of DEFA's all-time most successful productions.^[3]

References[]

^ "The Blum Affair (Affaire Blum): Synopsis". DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
^ Bosley Crowther (October 18, 1949). "The Screen; German Drama at World". The New York Times.
^ List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.

External links[]

Blum Affair at IMDb

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[1] "The Blum Affair (Affaire Blum): Synopsis". DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

[2] Bosley Crowther (October 18, 1949). "The Screen; German Drama at World". The New York Times.

[3] List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.

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