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The Curse (1924 film)

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Director
  
Robert Land

Country
  
Austria

Language
  
Silent German intertitles

Writer
  
Walter Reisch
,
Ernst Weizmann

Release date
  
28 February 1925 (Austria)

The Curse (German:Der Fluch) is a 1924 Austrian drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Lilian Harvey, Oscar Beregi and Albert Heine.

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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,

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.

Cast

  • Lilian Harvey as Ruth
  • Oscar Beregi as Jehuda Nachmann
  • Albert Heine as Esra
  • Ferdinand Bonn as Rabbi Eliser
  • Isak Deutsch as Zuhälter
  • Alice Hetsey as Haushälterin
  • Anny Hornik as Lea
  • Reinhold Häussermann as Schadchen
  • Ria Jászonyi as Rahel
  • Olga Lewinsky as Geburtshelferin
  • Ferdinand Mayerhofer as Arzt
  • Milena Mudin as Dirne Miriam
  • Anton Pointner
  • Eugen Preiß as Tempeldiener
  • Otto Schmöle as Torwächter
  • Hans Thimig as Sinche

    • References

    The Curse (1924 film) Wikipedia
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    The Curse (1924 film) IMDb