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.Bergfelder, Carter & Göktürk p.172
It was made with backing from Germany's Socialist Party. Along with Brothers (1929), it was one of two contemporary films espousing 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, which is 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 Hermann Vallentin as Kremke Anna Sten as Kremkes Tochter Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Junger Arbeiter Else Heller Inge Landgut Wolfgang Zilzer
References
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.
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