The Curse (1924 film)

The Curse
The Curse
Directed by	Robert Land
Written by	Walter Reisch; ;
Produced by	Robert Land
Starring	Lilian Harvey; Oscar Beregi; Albert Heine; Ferdinand Bonn;
Cinematography	Nicolas Farkas
Production; company	Land-Film
Release date	28 February 1925 (Austria);
Country	Austria
Languages	Silent; German intertitles;

The Curse (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.

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]

Synopsis[]

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]

Cast[]

Lilian Harvey as Ruth
Oscar Beregi as Jehuda Nachmann
Albert Heine as Esra
Ferdinand Bonn as Rabbi Eliser
as Zuhälter
as Haushälterin
as Lea
Reinhold Häussermann as Schadchen
as Rahel
as Geburtshelferin
as Arzt
as Dirne Miriam
Anton Pointner
as Tempeldiener
Otto Schmöle as Torwächter
Hans Thimig as Sinche

References[]

^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 186
^ Prawer p. 21

Bibliography[]

Ascheid, Antje (2003). Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-984-5.
Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.

External links[]

The Curse at IMDb

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[1] Bock & Bergfelder p. 186

[2] Prawer p. 21

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