Bookkeeper Kremke

Bookkeeper Kremke
Directed by	Marie Harder
Written by	Herbert Rosenfeld
Starring	Hermann Vallentin Anna Sten Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Cinematography	Robert Baberske Franz Koch
Production company	Naturfilm Hubert Schonger
Release date	15 September 1930 (1930-09-15)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

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.[1]

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

1. Bergfelder, Carter & Göktürk p.172

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.

External links

• Bookkeeper Kremke at IMDb