The Blum Affair (1948)
Affaire Blum
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.
- Date of release
- 1948-12-03
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Erich Engel
Casting
- 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
- Gisela Trowe — Christina Burman
- Arno Paulsen — Wilhelm Platzer
- Herbert Hübner — Landgerichtsdirektor Hecht
- Blandine Ebinger — Lucie Schmerschneider
- Gerhard Bienert — Karl Bremer
- Werner Peters — Egon Konrad
Interesting facts
Blum Affair is a 1948 East German drama film directed by Erich Engel and starring Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow and Karin Evans. It is based on a real 1926 case in Magdeburg in which a German Jewish industrialist is tried for murder. The film was produced in the future East Germany and produced by DEFA. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and Althoff Studios in the Soviet zone. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.
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