Judith Trachtenberg (film)
| Judith Trachtenberg | |
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| Directed by | Henrik Galeen |
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| Cinematography | Gotthardt Wolf |
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| Distributed by | Doktram-Film |
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| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Judith Trachtenberg is a 1920
Jewish cultural assimilation including Love One Another (1922), The Ancient Law (1923) and The City Without Jews (1924). The film's plotline of a Jewish woman becoming involved with an aristocratic figure follows what is known as an "Esterka story".[2]
Synopsis
In the nineteenth century, a young
ball held by one of her father's business associates. After he rescues her from the unwanted attentions of a Polish army officer, they fall in love. She falls pregnant, and they live together in a Common-law marriage. Her family are horrified by the match and make her an outcast. Distraught by this, she ultimately commits suicide by drowning
herself in a lake.
Cast
- Leontine Kühnberg as Judith Trachtenberg
- Ernst Deutsch as Judith's Brother
- Leonhard Haskel as Father Trachtenberg
- Paul Otto as Count Agenor Baranowski
- Hermann Vallentin as Prefect von Wroblewski
- Max Adalbert as Fürst Metternich
- Friedrich Kühne as Ignaz Trudka
- Ernst Pröckl as Severin von Tronski
- Margarete Kupfer as Frau von Wroblewski
- Frida Richard as Mirjam
References
Bibliography
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- Judith Trachtenberg at IMDb
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