Love One Another (1922)

Interesting facts

Die Gezeichneten is a 1922 German silent film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, based on the 1918 novel Elsker hverandre (Love one another) by Danish author Aage Madelung. The plot follows a young Jewish woman as she experiences antisemitism and revolution in late 19th century Russia. It is noted as one of the earliest motion pictures to deal with the persecution of Jewish people. Danish film historian Casper Tybjerg described the film as "a powerful attack on anti-Semitic prejudice".

Production

This is the first film directed by Dreyer in Germany. It was shot near Berlin, in Groß Lichterfelde Ost, where a city consisting of 25 different buildings was built, with a synagogue and an orthodox church and separate Russian and Jewish quarters.

In order to guarantee the authenticity of the film, Dreyer together with the set designer Jens Lind had travelled to Lublin in Poland, where he had visited the Jewish quarter. In addition, several of the actors were coming from Moscow theaters and for the crowd scenes, actual Jewish refugees from Russia were employed, some of them having personally experienced some fifteen years before events similar to the pogrom described in the film.

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