Table of contents : CLICK HERE !

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Pogrom, a film from 1919




I cannot find much about this German film from 1919, except that it was directed by Alfred Halm (1861-1951) and that the main actress was Ilka GrĂ¼ning, a famous Austrian star.
Still, it seems to me appropriate to mention Pogrom, having in mind the antisemitic missdeeds perpetrated these last weeks in some European countries. 

The life of Eastern European Jews, especially in the Czar’s Russia, their misery, legal discrimination, and their suffering of antisemitic violence, were themes which German cinema addressed around the First World War. For instance, in Der gelbe Schein (The Yellow Passport, GER 1918), Der Ritualmord (Ritual Murder, GER 1919), as well as Pogrom, the film by Alfred Halm. 

As for Ilka GrĂ¼ning, she was born in Vienna in 1876. A respected actress in Germany, being of Jewish descent, she had to flee when the Nazis came to power in 1933. She held one of the roles in Die freudlose Gasse, 1925 (Joyless street or The Street of Sorrow), directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and with Greta Garbo in one of her first main roles. 

 The poster of Pogrom, by the way, is by Josef Fenneker.



https://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Expo-Jorge-Sexer/dp/1717880525/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1539983013&sr=8-1




    






No comments:

Post a Comment