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Director
  
Erich Engel

Music director
  
Herbert Trantow

Duration
  

Country
  
East Germany

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Crime

Screenplay
  
Robert A. Stemmle

Writer
  
Robert A. Stemmle

Language
  
German

Blum Affair movie poster

Release date
  
3 December 1948 (1948-12-03)

Initial release
  
December 3, 1948 (Germany)

Cast
  
Hans Christian Blech
(Mörder Karlheinz Gabler),
Ernst Waldow
(Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger),
Paul Bildt
(Untersuchungsrichter Konrat),
Karin Evans
(Sabine Blum),
Alfred Schieske
(Kriminalkommissar Otto Bonte),
Kurt Ehrhardt
(Dr. Jakob Blum)

Similar movies
  
Marriage in the Shadows (1947)

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.

Contents

Blum Affair The Blum Affair DEFA Film Library

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
  • Kurt Ehrhardt as Dr. Jakob Blum
  • Gerhard Bienert as Karl Bremer
  • Herbert Hübner as Langerichtsdirektor Hecht
  • Friedrich Maurer as Rechtsanwalt Dr. Gerhard Wormser
  • Klaus Becker as Hans Fischer - Gutsvolontär
  • Arno Paulsen as Wilhelm Platzer
  • Hilde Adolphi 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."

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

    References

    Blum Affair Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Blum Affair IMDb Blum Affair themoviedb.org